Word: cavorting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Underwood's figures give a first impression of having been created by a slightly dotty humorist. They cavort and prance, leap and fly, as if under the spell of a pleasantly chaotic orchestra. At times the rhythms become so frenetic that the small figures look as if they might shake themselves apart. Yet the surface humor quickly peels away to reveal more serious intentions underneath. Underwood's sculptures are expressions of ideas, some of which he transforms into dances of joy and some into gestures of despair...
After a while it appeared that Frescobaldiana was a dull piece and had absolutely nothing to do with evoking. Baroque organ works. So everyone politely ignored that and honestly enjoyed listening to the orchestra cavort...
...sight of Miss Hayes trying to cavort about with teenage movements is simply repulsive. If you're going to act, Miss Hayes, act your...
...back numbers of the National Geographic. It is full of scenic wonders-a Carlsbad spa with fountains spouting real water, a Christmas vision of Old Vienna filigreed in confectioner's icing, a wedding extravaganza such as only Broadway angels can afford. In and about these Oliver Smith settings cavort the Wiener Burger, garbed by Lucinda Ballard in resplendent turn-of-the-century costumes. Unfortunately, there is little more to this comic operetta than meets the eye, or greets the ear in a waltzy-schmalzy score. The best way to simulate an evening at The Gay Life...
...week, and she was so popular that the morale of the R.A.F. was said to rise and fall with her skirts. Minor victories from the Mediterranean to Malaya were attributed to the fact that Jane was unblushingly bare on a particular morning. After the war Jane continued to cavort across the pages of the Mirror, delighting demobbed servicemen who found that she looked as luscious at a suburban breakfast table as she had in an army mess hall...