Word: jigged
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HITCHCOCK: Strangely enough, over the wall and everything. But it did jig up and down in an unusual...
...playgoers were "yung and easily freudened," as Joyce once put it. But fashions are the autumns of ideas. Last season Murray Schisgal put all those clotted cliches into the mouths of three wackily soulful devotees of "adjustment" and "personal relationships," derisively labeled his play Luv, and the psychosexual jig...
...that bystanders called the "L.BJ." and the "Valenti." In the L.B.J., more caricature than choreography, they shuffled around the floor to the rhythm of the hitchhike, punching each other on the shoulder, "reasoning together," dialing imaginary telephones, grasping hands in the presidential flesh-press. For the Valenti, a simple jig by comparison, they went through the motions of a man reaching into his pockets and throwing out dollar bills, a kinetic play on Presidential Aide Jack Valenti's huge salary in his new job as head of the Motion Picture Association (see The Administration...
...choreographers. Even Impresario Sol Hurok got into the act: at his request, several mime sequences were telescoped to enliven the pace. The result is a bravura hodgepodge of Spanish and gypsy dances, pas de deux, a smattering of light-footed cupids and dryads and, for some obscure reason, a jig resembling a French apache dance...
...know he had a no-hitter going, he must have wondered why nobody talked to him in the dugout. He struck out the side in the eighth, again in the ninth, and when he fogged one last fast ball past Pinchhitter Harvey Kuenn, he danced a little jig on the mound. He had won his 22nd game, 1-0. His 14 strikeouts gave him a total of 332 for the season-just 16 shy of Bob Feller's alltime record. More important, he had become the eighth man in modern baseball history to pitch a perfect game...