How To Use Whiteface In A Sentence
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The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
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This was interesting because it meant that the people in whiteface on the Library Mall must be members of Terminal Theater, the legendary factoidal group whose name, even, was subject to conjecture, or was an aspect, perhaps, of the group’s borderline existence.
Underworld
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In the context of this event, the dancers' makeup - whiteface with eyes and mouths outlined - had a disturbing edge, though as they moved they conjured more Weimar than minstrel show.
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Lead vocalist Martyn Jacques, a classically-trained counter-tenor, sings many of the songs in falsetto, wearing a bowler and whiteface while playing the accordion, piano, and banjolele.
Archive 2008-11-01
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Whiteface and blackface were not only associated in theatricality; in a more profound sense, they both replicated similar stereotypes.
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The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
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Maybe removing the whiteface platinum pearl hen from her yellow-white albino mate (also called pied) caused the disruption.
Amorous cockatiels and marriage equality
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This paper looks at the previously unconsidered racial stereotype of whiteface utilized by Anglo Americans in the middle of the nineteenth century to distance their working-class from those of the newly arrived immigrant Irish.
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Germans don whiteface for Carnival, while urban African blacks paint their faces white in rites of passage.
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However, it was not only in theater that this stage Irish character of whiteface began to appear.
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He had the winning good looks of a college quarterback in whiteface with all the paraphernalia of his trade hanging off him.
FLOATING CITY
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It's just a noise that might attract some birds, particularly things like wrens and thornbills, and saffron whitefaces which we've just seen.
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The whiteface, the Keystone Kops moments, the jerky movements, the syncopated line deliveries and Joe Bauer's loud sound effects—coins pouring into a cash register, Tiger Brown's heavy footsteps, the glugs as Mrs. Peachum Traute Hoess swallows her booze—contribute to the old-movie artificiality of the production.
Waging Underclass Warfare
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This paper looks at the previously unconsidered racial stereotype of whiteface utilized by Anglo Americans in the middle of the nineteenth century to distance their working-class from those of the newly arrived immigrant Irish.
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In trademark whiteface and Buster Keaton regalia, Viglione pummeled his drums in a murderous rage, while Palmer's full, rich voice created a palpable drama.
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He has landed a ‘sit-down job, with benefits’ in an arcade, posing as Abraham Lincoln - whiteface and all - for patrons who pay to shoot blanks at him.
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As soon as you enter the car park you are greeted by a menagerie of farm animals, many of them rare breeds including Soay, Ryeland and Whitefaced Woodland sheep.
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What would they have made of Edward D. Wood's horrifyingly inept cine-poems - or of Oscar Micheaux's melodramas, with black actors in whiteface?
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They aspire to the authority of the whiteface, but wind up like the auguste.
Making Light: Maybe next year
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The top dog, Lincoln, in costume and whiteface, impersonates Honest Abe in a sideshow, for customers playing Booth to shoot at.
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As a black man going undercover in whiteface, he investigates this secret world with laughable results.
