Amuses and entertains. Usually, there is a companion word with comedy, which helps to describe its thrust such as situation, romantic, social or farcical, satirical. Often, its discussed according to levels low comedy, high comedy. On the highest level, there is the comedy of ideas or comedy of manners with emphasis on language and wit. For instance, the plays of jonson, congreve, wilde and shaw. On the lowest level, there is physical comedy such as is found in burlesque and farce, with emphasis on a madcap situation and fastpaced, highly visual action. The plays of goldoni, goldsmith, sheridan and even the keystone kops or tom and jerry cartoons come to mind. The venetian twins represents the more physical or situation comedy. It evolved from the commedia dellarte tradition. In the commedia, there were no written scripts, only scenarios, and the actors improvised their dialogue and bits of stage business as they performed. In this connection, it might be appropriate for me to recall s
Three electoral victories in the 1980s. Around the publicsector unions thats why i say what happened is an expression of this larger trend. The one that created sci you said, and i think i quoted in the book quite directly it is the single most powerful force in the united states. He is right and we will have to deal with this into the future. [applause] he is going to be signing books outside. For the cspan audience you can buy these on amazon. Com. [inaudible conversations] the political commentator for npr and abc news recounts the lives of numerous American Revolutionary women from Martha Washington to Dolly Madison. This is about an hour. [applause] so is this cool or what you get out of school and come here to this bookstore which has been on saturday night live, and the president came to this bookstore so this is a very special place and its very special for me to get here so i am very pleased. But i am also pleased to be able to talk to you about this because when i was a kid g
All seen that police ended up exploding and then an explosion went off inside that van because there was indeed some kind of pipe bomb in the van. He said yes, that he recognized that that was his son and he recognized the van saying that his son had left texas, taken a bus to georgia and picked up the van, brought it home. And just a few hours before he went on the shooting spree, he was at his dads house. He said he was angry about the police saying he blamed them for taking his son away. But he also said that his son was acting pretty normal and when he left he said look dad, ill be back in about ten days to mow your lawn again. Three hours later he stormed the Dallas Police department shot it up and then threatened to blow up police and ended up dying himself. Heres what his father had to say during our emotional interview. Told me he loved me and was going back to west texas. And i told him have a safe trip. He left from here. He mowed my yard yesterday. Told me hes going to be ba
A good evening to you tonight. As we head into the weekend, for the first time in history, doctors in the United States will battle the ebola virus. Two patients are coming home. Heres what we know right now. One of the two patients will arrive from africa tomorrow. Right there in front of the plane, you can see the airtight tent. Its an isolation pod that will carry the patients here. Back in the hot zone in africa tonight, soldiers trying to prevent panic in the streets. We have dr. Richard besser, who is the former acting head of the cdc. Who has tracked deadly disease es such as ebola. Reporter tonight, word those two missionaries stricken with ebola, now stable enough to fly. Nancy writebold and dr. Kent brantley expected to be transported one at a time in a specially designed aircraft. Inside a disposable tent designed to protect the crew from the deadly virus. They will fly more than 5,000 miles from liberia to the United States, landing at Dobbins Air Force base in georgia, the
President obama said this about families like the khans, families who have lost ones killed in action. Because i understood that our gold star families have made a sacrifice that most of us cannot even begin to imagine. [ cheers and applause ] they represent the very best of our country. They continue to inspire us, everyday, every moment. They serve as a powerful reminder of the true strength of america. Is. So just a second ago captain khans father was here, he was on new day this morning. Well see that in just a moment talking about why he called out mr. Trump during the Democratic National Convention Last week in philadelphia. He said trump had sacrificed nothing and that he offered his pocket constitution for trump to read. Trump called khan a hero but to his father trump tweeted this, let me yet. Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the dnc and is now all over tv doing the same. Nice. Trump also said this about sacrifice sacrifices. I think ive