Word: cakewalking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show brings back just about everything that ever belonged to the girl who was the toast and tattle of France, whose sexy, banana-girdle routines led the Lost Generation through the rhythms of le jazz hot. There is a showboat Cakewalk, some St. Louis blues, a song of Harlem in hard times and of Negroes in Paris; there is a flash of the old Folies and the new ballets; there is Josephine doing a Gypsy ballet and "The Charleston Forever" in black gold-spangled tights...
...Against Republican complaints about his above-it-all political leadership, President Eisenhower threw himself into the campaign with the toughest partisan speeches of his life. And against national and international trends that had threatened to turn the elections into a Democratic cakewalk to sweeping victory, came developments that, in state after state, had turned the contests into down-to-the-wire horse races. The updated issues...
...that "the right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy" (TIME, June 4), lost control of his tongue again. Speaking to some Republican ladies in Salisbury, Md., Pyle gravely assessed the G.O.P.'s outlook for November's elections: "The campaign will be no Cakewalk for our congressional and senatorial candidates, even with our ticket being led by such a popular and great leader, Franklin D. -." Silent for a moment, the ladies shrieked their amusement. Unblinking, Orator Pyle corrected himself: "Forgive me. I mean by Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...chase scene, when the pursuit drives Danny into a theater, the audience witnesses what is surely the first performance of a classic ballet that ever included a cakewalk. Biggest laugh: Danny, posing as a British explorer at one point, is asked what he thought of the Himalayas. For an instant he looks flummoxed, then casually pip-pips: "Loved him. Hated...
...Cakewalk (by Ruthanna Boris; music by Louis Gottschalk-Hershy Kay) takes off with wit and imagination on the traditional American minstrel show, complete with interlocutor, end men, magician, and a high-stepping Cakewalk...