Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group could be expected to equate a confirmed reservation with a binding contract it would be a bunch of lawyers. Not the American Bar Association. Preparations for the A.B.A.'s annual meeting this week in Montreal were so tentative that delegates had to display more than fancy legal footwork merely to get there...
...most successful characterization in this production relies neither on fancy footwork nor on a funny face. James E. Maxwell turns in a masterfully understated performance as Snorty McGee, a third bootlegger who masquerades as a butler and surveys the frantic goings-on with a mildly amused detachment, politely refusing to adopt anything resembling a servile manner. Calmly observing a violent quarrel between his newly wedded "master" and "mistress," he helpfully supplies the words to finish off the sentences they are sputtering and in the tense full that follows the outburst, says with infuriating matter of factness, "Well, I suppose...
...Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, at least nine of the 63 graduates receiving the basic ministry degree are still looking for jobs, and those who have them, notes a placement worker, had to do "a great deal more footwork" than their predecessors. Adds the Rev. Harry Adams, associate dean at the Yale Divinity School: the days are gone when seminary seniors could sit back, "dream up their own things, and find someone to fund them...
...confined to New York. Ten years ago there were two professional dance companies outside of Manhattan with budgets exceeding $100,000. Last year there were 20. Bustling activity in other U.S. companies, like the San Francisco Ballet, reflects the new enthusiasm for dance. There is wit behind the footwork of San Francisco's Alexander Filipov, who is yet another Kirov-trained dancer. Dramatic range, nervy dancing and a varied repertory -Giselle, Merce Cunningham's Winterbranch-place the Boston Ballet high on the list. Small wonder that subscriptions nearly tripled last year. The most important company outside...
...encouraged by the lecture form. Reviewing his decision to become a museum director, he concludes: "I took the wrong turning." The London art world he compares to "a battlefield at nightfall," and seems to despise himself for surviving it: "I learnt adaptability and what is known in boxing as footwork...