Word: hops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serpents are gilded with Theda Bara eye makeup and cheap-glam feather boas, but their style is belly dance rather than hippity-hop Charleston. The set, too, is twenties and thirties: the glitter of aluminum foil stars and moons is like the old movie palaces with their ugly statues, fancy organs, and ceilings domed in twinkling lights to look like the midnight sky. The effect is hokey but not distracting--it's just instant dreamland...
...number either an obvious parody or, in some cases, an integral part of the action. The author isn't trying to disguise the obvious difference of drama and song: rather he plays with that separation. Cole Porter is clearly a strong influence on LaZebnik's songwriting. Like "The Heaven Hop" from Anything Goes, most of the numbers are sheerly for entertainment, and fortunately they are entertaining...
...nature, there is hardly a more impressive athlete than the tiny flea. The pesky wingless insects are not only able to jump distances of more than 100 times their body length, but they also make the jumps repeatedly, apparently without tiring. The Oriental rat flea, for instance, can hop steadily for three straight days 600 times an hour. Now a group of researchers, led by British Entomologist Miriam Rothschild (of the banking family), believes that it has uncovered the secret of the flea's remarkable prowess...
Relaxed Mood. No one really seems to be paying much attention. Down on Shameen Island, the gently crumbling foreign-concession area built by the 19th century European traders along the Pearl River banks, old men squat placidly over a game of cards and little girls hop in unison over their skipping ropes. Canton's mood is relaxed, visibly so in the curious but friendly glances foreigners get, or in the newly repainted names of stores: MOON BEAM FRUIT STORE and EASTERN SEA HERBAL MEDICINES now glow in soft pastels where only a few years ago there were strident slogans...
...Welcome to Quang Due, the most remote place on earth," says the briefing officer. A quick 40-minute hop from Saigon in a C-130 transport, it is hardly that. But the filmy gray clouds wafting across the silent blue hills and the weathered faces of Montagnard tribesmen staggering along the airstrip with their worldly goods on their backs certainly convey a sense of primitive isolation...