Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carbon Dansait, a slum-bred youngster dreams of being another Fred Astaire; Montand manages a brilliant satiric evocation of second-rate Astaire-the outflung white-gloved hands (without the gloves), the staccato rhythms tapped out on a walking stick like a hollow third leg, and the agitated centipede footwork interrupted with dazzling toothpasty smiles. The funniest number casts Montand as a feverish symphony conductor who snaps his baton, his Beethoven concert and his career in two to waltz off with a girl who cares only for waltzes. In sentimental Parisian songs, Montand runs the risk of sounding like a younger...
MANY reporters have found that covering the current news in the U.S. South often calls for faster-thanusual footwork. Among them is one of TIME'S Atlanta correspondents, Calvin ("Bud") Trillin, 25, who has become a familiar figure to leaders on both sides of integration skirmishes...
...East Room struck up Mr. Wonderful; Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Ladybird joined the Kennedys in leading the first dance. Afterward, Jack stood at one end of the ballroom greeting guests while Jackie toured the floor with a battalion of successive partners. The verdict on her footwork, as announced by Florida's Senator George Smathers: "She's divine...
...just executing some fast footwork with a soccer ball, as he dribbled it around the desk and then passed off to a young man in white bucks and blue blazer, who took the pass behind the water-cooler...
...inaugural. In Manhattan, Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum with the assistance of Researcher Joanne Funger distilled the essence, wrote the cover story, his 14th (among others: the fast-breaking cover story of Kennedy's election victory for the TIME Election Extra). As a result of long planning and fast footwork, TIME met all its many deadlines, delivered on schedule this week's word-and-picture account of a turning point in the 20th century...