Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years the Republican solution for the grievances of the middle class have been lower taxes, less government. And the G.O.P. primary front runners are on message. With his plaid shirts and his footwork across the early primary states, Lamar Alexander has been straining for the common touch. But for the most part his populism identifies the standard G.O.P. villain, Washington. Steve Forbes? Enough said. As for Dole, his parents were so poor that during the Depression they moved the family to the basement of their house so they could rent the main floor to an oil company manager...
...FRED ASTAIRE WAS white tie and tails, Gene Kelly was white socks and loafers--often enough with his cuffs casually rolled up so we could better appreciate the flash of his footwork. If the sinuous elegance of his great (and friendly) rival shone most brilliantly on the polished surface of a ballroom floor, Kelly's robust athleticism seemed to rise most exuberantly from a gritty city sidewalk. Astaire put us in touch with our romantic ideals and with that perfection of manner the rest of us attain only in our more blissful daydreams. At his best, Kelly reminded us that...
...going to be working on our fundamentals--footwork, handwork, timing," Chan said. "As long as the foundation is strong, we can keep winning...
...Roman Church's answer is annulment, whereby the Church says that the marriage never occurred. This is essentially fancy footwork around the morally disturbing problem that a marriage begun with good intentions can fail. (Here at Harvard we aren't very comfortable with the idea of failure either, since so many of us have very little experience with it.) There is a great hypocrisy in requiring annulment for remarriage within the Church, since powerful, well-connected people can obtain annulments even without any proof that no marriage ever existed...
Miller appears to be performing some of her fancy footwork with this quote. Delellis tells a different story on Miller's shooting skills...