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Considering how delicately they enhance the view-any view-beautiful female legs have been scandalously neglected by fashion. While every other part of the female anatomy is singled out for celebration from one season to the next, legs are mostly left to hoof it. Beautiful Legs are particularly badly treated in winter, when they are either stuffed into pants and rendered unviewable or left like Dickensian waifs to battle wind-chill factor through a pinch of pantyhose. When Beautiful Legs complain about this scurvy treatment, they are curtly told by designers to go take a walk...
...June 11, the majestic chestnut thoroughbred Seattle Slew may gallop to fame on the brown dirt of Belmont, as he attempts to become the first undefeated Triple Crown winner in racing history. Standing 16 1/2 hands from hoof to mane, Slew is a rarity among race horses in that he never has to be whipped...
...white impresarios, redneck audiences and onrushing bankruptcy is described in a metronomic pacing and rousing ragtime music. Indeed, if Director William Graham can be faulted, it is for his emphasis on song and dance rather than discourse. Hardly a scene passes in which Graham fails to have his cast hoof and puff their way through one more number. Still, this does not stifle the spirited entertainment or the sorrowful history. For TV viewers who suffered withdrawal pains at the conclusion of Roots, Minstrel Man offers a timely fix. Roger Wolmuth
...buffalo buffs: live male and female calves ($11,750 the pair) from "the first certified 100% pure-bred buffalo herd in the U.S." There are 20 pairs available; gift wrapping is described as "optional and difficult." Bison sales to date: 20 rolls, two stuffed and one pair on the hoof...
...Hoof and Croon. Kelly has directed some new sequences to introduce the film clips, pleasant interludes sung and danced by the director and Fred Astaire, appearing together for the first time in a movie since they did The Babbit and the Bromide in Ziegfeld Follies (1946). Astaire is 77 but retains his very particular charm. He is part boulevardier, part made-in-U.S.A. naïf. Kelly, 63 and still able to dance in and out of rain puddles better than anyone else ony earth, stages these hoof-and-croon sessions with roughhouse smoothness. Among the assorted clips...