Word: jig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members from the film Annie, including Newcomer Aileen Quinn, 10, Veteran Director John Huston, 75, seemed as pleased as Daddy Warbucks during a Dow Jones upswing. The screen version of the Broadway hit was his first attempt at anything musical since guiding his father, Actor Walter Huston, through a jig in the 1948 classic Treasure of Sierra Madre. "And that," John admits, "was his own choreography." The Annie youngsters were just as professional. Says Huston: "If you understand kids, they never disappoint...
...proven fixer and bribe taker. Smith granted favors and made promises that only the Attorney General could deliver, kept up to half a million dollars buried in a friend's backyard and walked around wearing a money belt filled with 75 $1,000 bills. When the jig was nearly up, Smith committed suicide. To thwart a Senate investigation, Daugherty declared his own records off limits and later resigned...
...genuinely Mozartean. A dashing allegro assai with a surprisingly sophisticated development (perhaps Leopold had a hand in here) is followed by an Italianate andante that ambles along amiably, the gracious, formal melody accompanied by a distinctive stutter-step in the violas. The presto finale is a sprightly jig...
...production bottlenecks. Without experienced workers, there is no way to shape and mold the thousands of metal parts that go into fighter planes and new tanks, into cruise missiles and Trident submarines. Northrop Corp., which co-produces the F/A-18 Hornet fighter, is already short of such specialized tradespeople as jig-and-fixture experts and plaster patternmakers. Says Donald Smith, director of the University of Michigan's industrial development division: "A recovering economy and a boom in defense orders could create the biggest industrial-demand crunch we've seen since 1941." Though the skills squeeze is hitting just about...
...them performed like dirges. When the company joins together for a song. Bundy has them scattered around the stage, standing motionless like figures in Madame Trousseau's, staring out at the audience and singing in low. Steady voices. In their dry, funeral quality, the group songs recall the opening jig...