Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Hines does start dancing, however, it is clear that even a dry plot can't kill the movie. The choreography is a brilliant mix of 1930s jazz tap and a more modern variation of the funk dancing which made Hines famous. The musical score is a mix of traditional jazz, big band songs and modern funk, created to accommodate the footwork...
Amid the honking horns, clattering sheets of metal covering potholes and crashing blows of construction workers fixing the streets, Hines leads the group into a frenetic mix of funk and jazz tap, taking his rhythm from the sounds around...
HUNDREDS of students were shortchanged last week--lotteried out or dismissed from their Literature and Arts B classes because of overcrowding. When "Jazz," "Monuments of Japan," and "Modern Art and Abstraction" turned away vast numbers of students in their lotteries, a chain-reaction of confusion ensued...
Even when a lottery does not seem necessary, professors or representatives of the Core Office should warn students early on when other classes in the same Core area are crowded. Clearly, all those lotteried out of "Jazz" and other courses were going to be forced to move into other classes...
...other Literature and Arts B courses, "Jazz" and "Modern Art and Abstraction," were also lotteried because of high student turnouts...