Word: heeling
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...dancing, like jazz, is part of deep-rooted black culture. Slaves hoofed on bare dirt to silent rhythms; eventually stuck metal plates to the toe and heel of flat shoes. Tap's heyday came during the Harlem Renaissance of the 20s and 30s. Later, popularity spread when tap giants John Bubbles and Bill Robinson starred in Hollywood movies...
...Hollywood flash. He waggles his hips as he taps, throws in a little jump, grins like a self-satisfied, grown-up L'il Rascal. Amazingly, the Sandman outsteps his friends, dancing like Ali if Ali had been a dancer, cool, hustling, full of street energy and showmen's finesse, heel to toe, over and over in a thousand combinations. Nierenberg's camera captures each...
...what's Out, compiled by Washington Post Fashion Editor Nina S. Hyde. Among this year's Ins: plain white sheets, Mickey Mouse, new rock, Judith Krantz, squash, grapefruit juice, Jessica Savitch, bright pink lipstick, Oxford shirts, marriage, Paddington Bear, diaphragms, Ansel Adams, cone-heel shoes, Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto heels, Irving Wallace, T shirts, crock pots, Snoopy, cowboy boots, Jane Pauley, nylon undies, open shirts and Mork...
...regime moved at the same time to bring to heel the 300-member foreign press corps, much of which it has tried to use for propaganda purposes. Some 2,000 Khomeini supporters marched through the streets of Tehran denouncing "Zionist-and imperialist-affiliated journalists" for sending "false and baseless" reports to the West. Following that, the government expelled TIME'S correspondents in Iran, Bruce van Voorst, 47, and Roland Flamini, 45. Abol Ghassam Sadegh, director general for the foreign press in the Ministry of National Guidance, denounced TIME for "one-sided and biased" coverage. Said he: "Since the hostage...
...gives us the push out the door. Maclaughlin is as sharp-eyed and as brusque as a boot camp sergeant. He spreads his legs, arching and throwing his head back yelling, "ARCHTHOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, FOUR THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, LOOK" he looks to his left heel. "LOOK." He looks to a release on his right pelvis, "PULL". He pulls the release. "PUNCH." He punches open the imaginary auxillary chute: the litany for a jumper after exiting the plane. If the main chute doesn't open after a count of six-thousand, you must pull the reserve. After...