Word: jigging
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...look a little closer, and see the newsreader's eyes widen when the TelePrompTer starts to stutter, or see the slight tremble in the hand that holds the notepad when the survivors tell the reporter to mind his own damn business. Look a little closer, and then the jig is up. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: this is really a pretty shallow--and maybe unseemly--way for a grownup to make a living...
Flatley's robust sense of self, combined with a stupefyingly energetic stage presence, has made him the center of a cultural phenomenon few would have predicted--a rage for the jig. As star of the two-year-old, 85-member Riverdance, the traveling Gaelic dance show, Flatley hopped, stepped and high-kicked to exultant houses in London and Dublin. When he parted ways with the company in October 1995 over a bitter, and still unresolved, creative dispute, he fashioned Lord of the Dance, a glitzier rival extravaganza showcasing his talents and the updated, freer-form manner of Irish dance...
While fans may be hard pressed to select their favorite between the two troupes, most critics have no problem. Having hailed Riverdance for rejuvenating the Irish jig, most reviewers have derided Lord, which has Flatley blasting onto the stage in puffs of smoke, as a sort of Siegfried and Roy with tap shoes. "There is only one word for it all," wrote Ismene Brown in London's Daily Telegraph: "embarrassing." But harsh comments do not deflate Flatley. "When there are 7,000 people in an audience cheerin', and there's one guy who doesn't like what I'm doin...
ATLANTA: The floor exercise decided Thursday's women's gymnastic individual all-around. While Lilia Podkopayeva of Ukraine, performing to an Irish jig, delighted the crowd and judges with her emotional floor routine, Dominique Dawes and Shannon Miller saw their medal hopes dashed by one misplaced foot and one slip on the same event. China's Mo Huilan, who was tied with Podkopayeva entering the final floor routine, stepped out of bounds clinching the gold for Podkopayeva. The Dream Teens -->