Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no need to worry about Wil lie. He demonstrated the flashy footwork ' and sharp punching of an old pro. He moved too fast ever to get set for a solid blow, but his left jab kept Rowan off bal ance all through the fight. At the end, he barreled in to demonstrate that he can hold his own in a close-in roughhouse and absorb some solid swipes without slowing up. His night's work earned him a unanimous decision, and gave the matchmakers something new to think about in their search for a heavyweight-title...
...those in which the two men dance attendance on their mutual wife to some pretty, witty choreography by Jack Cole. All the dances, in fact, have just the right sort of scratchpad casualness, and in a couple of them Marge and Gower Champion actually manage to make precision footwork look like Saturday night luck. The songs (Someone to Watch Over Me, I've Got a Crush on You, How Come You Do Me Like You Do?) have been heard before, but they are not too hard to hear again. Betty Grable is still a fairly potent whiff of H202...
...Congress, lawmakers were engaged in two kinds of positioning. On the surface, Democrats were taking control from Republicans with hearty promises of bipartisan cooperation on foreign policy, and arranging themselves according to time-honored courtesies and the unwritten rules of seniority. Beneath the surface, the political footwork was livelier, with every step taken in anticipation of the 1956 campaign...
...Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; book by Rodgers, Hart and George Abbott) is a good deal oftener on its uppers. The musical that in 1936 really put jazz ballet on Broadway, On Your Toes was perhaps from the start pretty much all thumbs where it wasn't nifty footwork. Time has tended to merge the show and the ballet into one, but they are scarcely more alike than Buffalo and Niagara Falls...
...George Abbotty that even the workers' slowdown gives the effect of a speedup; it is all so well managed that even the fumbles seem something new in footwork. There are the kind of peppy dance numbers that suggest a cheerleaders' carnival, and there is a great deal of music with an infectious, elementary lilt. A long-legged, gaminlike newcomer named Carol Haney dances like a dervish and is generally fun; Eddie Foy Jr. softshoes nostalgically and is generally helpful. John Raitt and Janis Paige make an attractive, a melodious, even a positively believable pair of lovers...