Since I have known the truth I have often reflected that it is on the whole a happy thing that such burlesque as this is believed, for it serves to conceal much that it is better should not be known generally.
A Robber, who had once been a Monk, pronounced over us a burlesque rather than a religious Ceremony: I and my Children were delivered into the hands of my new Husband, and He conveyed us immediately to his home.
The glorious light of this tender and refined passion seemed to have become debased to burlesque hues by pure accident, and his aesthetic no less than his ethic taste was offended by such an anti-climax.
Sedately and gracefully they danced the steps of their selection in the balmy tea hours, accomplishing with a certain dignity the movements so horribly burlesqued by clerk and chorus girl the country over.
He became the group's front man and soon enough the Jackson brothers were playing live shows in strip clubs and burlesque bars, the only places that would have them in Gary.
In particular, there was a circus tent that had contortionism, which is when people can bend their body parts into amazing shapes, stripteases, burlesque, vogue, pole dancing… It truly was amazing.
A faithful account of all that the young man learnt and wrote from 1855 to 1860—that is, from his twenty-fifth to his thirtieth year—would have the look of burlesque exaggeration.
In Dance Girl Dance, her most intriguing film, Two Women, Lucille Ball and Maureen O'Hara pursue life in show business from opposite sides of the spectrum, burlesque and ballet.
What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry-andrew, a play upon words, an equivocal situation in a burlesque and a scene of high comedy?
Clever press-agenting spread the unfounded rumor that " Gypsy" Smith was beginning a libel suit because one of the principal characters was a burlesque of himself.