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...Andre De Shields is a cat of cool gray nattiness and Ken Page is a slithery streetwise shark with a mi metic gift for Waller's gravelly mocking asides. To give the show its rightful name, "The Joint Is Jumpin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rent Party | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...military marching with equal indifference. A girl bouncing a ball begins the work; a lone ball bounding across stage ends the dance. A lady behind me aptly remarked, as one dancer laid her head on the shoulder of another, "I'd be tired too, if I'd been jumpin' around like that...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Happy Feet | 5/25/1977 | See Source »

...major positions open to athletes in professional sports, the annual turn over is low, and a black child has less than one chance in 1,000 of becoming a pro. "Unfortunately," Ashe wrote, "our most widely recognized role models are athletes and entertainers-'runnin'' and 'jumpin'' and 'singin'' and 'dancin'.' While we are 60% of the National Basketball Association, we are less than 4% of the doctors and lawyers ... less than 2% of the engineers ... less than 11% of construction workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Black Dominance | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Gerald Ford and the Corporate State. Unless his agents cancel, Jumpin' Gerry plans to spend part of his time next week waiting for Tricky Dick to disappear by speaking to a respectful audience of Harvard Young Republicans. The concert should include some of his all-time imperialist hits, including "I Am a Simple Man," "I've Got a Name," "The Ballad of the Green Berets," and "I'm Sitting On Top of the World." You can be part of the demonstration that shows Ford that the people have a better idea, such as ending racism at home and cutting...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Rock and Folk | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

...There's Jeff Beck's introduction to "Over, Under, Sideways, Down;" Ray Davies' integration of "Land of 1000 Dances" into his archetypal "Top of the Pops;" the musical moment between "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women," which signified the end of mainstream Sgt. Pepper experimentation; "Lola." Pithy moments that, like good imagist poetry, are form, substance and implication in the instant they are heard. Take Peter Townshend's "My Generation." The singer's stutter says as much as the lyrics and says it better...

Author: By Freddy Boyd, | Title: Quadrophenia: Townshend Redux | 12/13/1973 | See Source »

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