Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secret of Santa Vittoria, Magnani silenced him with some logic of her own. "Never mind-I'm supposed to win this fight, remember?" When the cameras quit grinding, Anna hobbled off to a doctor and discovered she had broken a metatarsal bone during that exhibition of fancy footwork...
With three key national currencies in varying degrees of difficulty, some fancy financial footwork has been necessary. To fortify the franc, France earlier this month was forced to draw $745 million from the International Monetary Fund, the country's first such loan since 1958. The next day Britain followed suit by tapping the IMF for credits totaling $1.4 billion...
...newsmen and their producers seemed themselves too numbed to grasp full command of the story until several hours after the shooting. Huntley and Brinkley seemed uncommonly beside the point; the early reporting hours demanded more footwork and fast talk-and less punditry. NBC anchorman Frank McGee shared with Sander Vanocur the credit for the coolest and ablest reporting on any channel...
Pouf of Smoke. Normal dramatic tools like characterization and motivation are given short shrift on M:I Geller & Co. instead believe in fast plots, dazzling footwork, bizarre technical contrivances. It is always the "how" of a story that keeps viewers pinned to their TV sets, since nearly everything else on the program is deliberately made familiar. At the opening, Peter Graves, 41, as Impossible Mission Leader Jim Phelps, enters a phone booth, warehouse or parked car, finds a hidden tape recorder, and turns it on. "Good morning, Mr. Phelps..." it begins, and then outlines the task: recover something crucial that...
...review attributes "a near-perfect technical mastery" to Seth Carlin's playing. I, for one, could not judge his fingerwork, because of the overall blur his heavy footwork gave the music. And no clear overall understanding of the piece came through to redeem the technical haze...