Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ping-pong ball, but the consistency of a baseball, it shoots and caroms from wall to wall so rapidly that a marker is needed to call "play" after each fair shot); a supply of racquets, since an average player breaks a racquet a game; players with stamina, timing, fast footwork and a lightning...
...Footwork in the Antilles
...steamed up to the higher altitudes from Veracruz, where horsemen and fishing peasants, known as jarochos, have danced it for 400 years. To a jarocho, La Bamba is a studied love ritual of Spanish-Indian origin, in which the dancers start far apart and slowly move together by delicate footwork, tying a ribboned sash on the ground into a lover's knot with their feet. As they dance they sing their own improvised, often risqué and not always intelligible love lyrics...
Died. Argentinita (real name: Encarnacion Lopez),* 47, whose brilliant footwork, miming and castanet playing earned her critical as well as public cheers; after two major operations, 17 blood transfusions; in Manhattan. Born in Buenos Aires but raised in Spain by her Castilian parents, she took her stage name from her childhood nickname, "the little Argentinian...
...years, olive-skinned jai alai professionals, wielding elongated basket-like contraptions called cestas, have whipped pelotas from one end of a three-walled concrete court to the other, banged their heads against the wall in disgust when they muffed a point, and pulled off shots requiring marvels of footwork and timing. Despite these pulse-quickening bursts, most Miamians found they could take Cuba's fast-paced game or leave it alone. In either case, they kept on leaving their spare change at Miami's horse and dog tracks...