Word: ils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are tap masters: Green slides in subtle steps, the soul dancer of the three, smooth, profound. Briggs adds a 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...
...with Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi and Communist Palmiro Togliatti, founded the postwar Italian Republic; of a heart attack; in Rome. At 20, the silver-tongued Nenni was jailed for protesting Italy's invasion of Libya; his cell mate was Benito Mussolini, then a fellow Socialist. When il Duce came to power, Nenni, an ardent antiFascist, fled to France and later joined the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. After World War II he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in Italy's first postwar government. His alliance with the Communist Party and his opposition...