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...turn over is low, and a black child has less than one chance in 1,000 of becoming a pro. "Unfortunately," Ashe wrote, "our most widely recognized role models are athletes and entertainers-'runnin'' and 'jumpin'' and 'singin'' and 'dancin'.' While we are 60% of the National Basketball Association, we are less than 4% of the doctors and lawyers ... less than 2% of the engineers ... less than 11% of construction workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Black Dominance | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...swinging Senator, a couple of dancin'-fool actresses, a Russian-born ballet star, and what have you got? A floor show-if the principals are Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who went into action last week at the Iranian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The occasion: a raucous, boozy party by Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi in honor of the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 19, 1976 | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...charming. Wonderful montage touches from a usually staid director, Lewis Milestone. It's all right to confuse this with Hallelujah, because that too is a period piece and worth seeing. King Vidor's 1929 all-black film was the first studio production not to jes have'em singin' and dancin' away...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...Cyrano de Bergerac in a junior production at their first dancing school in Manhattan. The tyro terpsichores are also glimpsed performing a bride-and-groom routine atop a prop wedding cake, with an incipiently suave Fred already puttin' on his white tie, brushin' off his top hat, dancin' in his tails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 5, 1973 | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...Band makes music for the autumn. It is surely not complete coincidence that their latest album, Stage Fright, is being released as September approaches. For no matter if they sing about "dancin' through the clover" or some "time to kill" in June and July, the sure flavor of fall, harvest time and autumnal melancholy is in all their tunes, permeating the rhythms, punctuating every lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mellow Harvest | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

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