Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joining a smart blue chorus line of New York's Finest later this month for a stage show to benefit Jacques d'Amboise's National Dance Institute. A veteran principal dancer of the New York City Ballet, D'Amboise, 48, has long been on an inner-city crusade to get children interested in ballet. He will use New York City police department dancers, six of them, to show smart alecks that dance isn't for sissies any more. That being so, there won't be much trouble picking Moore out of the police lineup...
Like Fever and, for that matter, the Rocky films, Flashdance has made it big by taking experiences of black youths and playing them in whiteface. The Flashdancers' moves can be seen any week on Soul Train, or on any inner-city street corner. But unlike its grittily romantic predecessors, Flashdance is pure glitz. This "Pittsburgh" has steel mills that shimmer in telephoto twilight. The sidewalks are clean as the Lido beach-must be where all the ironworkers got those golden tans. In a neighborhood bar, Alex (Jennifer Beals) and her chums put on a sexy, high-tech floor show...
More than 200 faculty and students conducted tours of the campus, explaining its inner workings to nearly 20,000 visitors...
...costumes are those of punks and new romantics gone off to the circus and while some seem inspired by the recent new wave film Starstruck, others are brand new and very clever. One cast member, dancer Glenda Medeiros, wears knee-length spandex pants. Spray-painted up one inner thigh and around and down the other is the message. "There is nothing." As she rolls across the floor, spreading her legs with each tumble, the audience sees the words over and over again...
...first time, Washington will host the citywide Annual High School Shakespeare Festival this month. "Other kids are scared to death to come down here to the inner city," chuckles Shakespeare Coach Aura Kruger. "They should all be scared to death of the competition." -By Guy D. Garcia. Reported by John E. Yang/Austin and Adam Zagorin/ New York