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Call it revolutionary theater. Five black men, heads shaved and clad in khaki prison fatigues, fling themselves across a small stage, jumping, singing, spitting their way through a series of stark, spotlighted vignettes of life in their native South Africa. Then, without warning, they turn on the audience, fingers pointed. "It's not only about the rent increase," hisses one. "It's not only about the vote. It's not only about the bloody passbooks . . . What is it?" Silence, broken by a few nervous giggles. "Stand up!" The actor glares at a confused ticket holder in the front row. "What...
...when you can see what the forest floor was like, when you have the soil of that time, when you know the angle of the sun giving the months of dark, you have a heck of a lot of facts to work on. We're going to have our fling...
Washington's grandees, sensing the approach of civil war, had one last fling in 1859, and it was in the Willard. Among the 1,800 guests: Sam Houston, Jefferson Davis, Stephen Douglas, William Seward. They raised glass after sparkling glass of champagne as the night -- and peace -- ebbed. It was claimed that this was the last time North and South met on friendly ground. On the day Jefferson Davis was sworn in as President of the Confederacy, delegates from 21 of the 34 states gathered quietly in Willard Hall to try to avert disaster. They failed...
...room looks like a scene from Fame. About 20 students garbed in dancer chic--leotards, leg warmers, and tights--fling themselves across the room to the rhythm provided by the pianist in the corner. The teacher stops and the students start the dance "one more time" as they wipe the sweat off their brows...
...didn't know the Highland fling from a sailor's hornpipe," he said later. "I watched the fellow's feet next to me and did what he did." He quickly graduated to Broadway musicals, then in 1930 was brought to Hollywood as a contract player for Warner Bros., the studio that had ushered in the talkies a few years earlier with The Jazz Singer. Many silent-film stars' careers were destroyed by the triumph of sound; Cagney's was ensured by it. He was one of the first actors to grab an audience by sending dialogue special delivery, with...