Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which Israel's survival depends. To the American public it was necessary to show the fledgling Administration to be both temperate and decisive in dealing with a major foreign policy flap, responding cohesively to fundamental American interests in the region and the world. The result was some fancy footwork by Reagan and his men that earned them, though things might still turn sour, better than a passing grade...
...quietly dressed Arbour, who could pass for a NASA flight controller, is a former defenseman and one of the most innovative coaches in the game. It was Arbour who sent his players to an ophthalmologist to work on hand-eye coordination and hired a figure-skating coach to improve footwork. Torrey kept his team going in the face of bankruptcy for years after the Islanders' former owner, Businessman Roy Boe, overextended himself trying to finance a franchise in the National Basketball Association...
...lips that move softly as they count the beats. The tinny sound of the piano and the gently pitter-pat of shoes upon the set's wooden-board floor echo through the house. Occasionally, one of the more confident dancers lets out a strained cheer or cutious exclamation. The footwork is fascinating, but so lacking in cluberance that it seems more like an exercise than a dance. This jig-perfectly executed vet perfectly lifeless-sets the mood for almost the entire production...
DIED. Adele Astaire Douglass, 83, Fred Astaire's elegant older sister and original dancing partner; after a stroke; in Scottsdale, Ariz. Born Adele Austerlitz in Nebraska, she began dancing in vaudeville shows with her brother when she was nine and he seven. Their dazzling footwork and comic flair made them the hit of London and Broadway musical theater in shows that included the Gershwins' Lady, Be Good (1924) and Funny Face (1927). In 1932, amid much publicity, Adele married Lord Charles Cavendish, trading her thriving career for life as a British society woman. Three years after his death...
Cheers and laughter. Who would not hire this man? Humility, a sense of proportion, gentle humor. Bless the elevator operator; bless the crippled Scotsman. Who would doubt that even now, from time to time, the Governor dreams.of the fancy footwork of the ever elusive Bud Cole...