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Word: fannings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...romantic ballet. But despite her fragile body, she is a gutsy, bold dancer with almost palpable physical courage. She flings herself into the role of Kitri. Her foot hits the back of her head when she jumps (and she leaps the night away). Her attacks are almost stabbing. Her fan flips constantly - unless she is using it to poke Basil. She so clearly relishes keeping him in line that one wonders if there isn't a bit of a shrew in his future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Americanization of Don Q | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...frustrated song writer Laraine Newman (Carole King). The scene in which they meet and Newman reaches them her song captures the same special moment, the gel point of the music, which is really quite effective. Another such moment occurs when the 12-year-old leader of the Buddy Holly Fan Club sits with Freed and starts to cry as he recalls the news of Holly's death...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: The Way We Weren't | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...chaos. There is one infectious sequence in a sound studio where a record producer (played by real-life Record Producer Richard Perry) flamboyantly reshapes a lame rock song into a hit; there's also a surprisingly touch ing scene in which the president of the Buddy Holly Fan Club (well acted by Moosie Drier, 13) tells Freed of his sorrow over Holly's death. Such isolated moments do not bring American Hot Wax to a crescendo, but no one can accuse Mutrux of ever losing the film's rocking beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rock Follies | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

From the moment an ardent Duke fan hugged me after Friday night's game until athletic director Tom Butters opened the first bottle of champagne at the Attleboro Holiday Inn on Sunday, Blue Devilirium slowly crept up on us until we found ourselves totally infected...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg and Laura E. Schanberg, S | Title: The Spirit of St. Louis | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

Blue Devilirium can be recognized by its many symptons--the most obvious one is the melange of blue and white clothes that appeared on every fan's body in sections 210-225 of the Providence Civic Center...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg and Laura E. Schanberg, S | Title: The Spirit of St. Louis | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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