Word: sandman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...managed to tap himself back to sanity, sliding and kicking off the disease that had tormented him, kept him from performing. When he got out he looked up his old friend Sandman Sims. The two had not spoken in 15 years; they didn't say hello. Instead each tapped a quick step, drawing together with their feet...
...SANDMAN SIMS had it different. The "ugly duckling" in a big family of tappers, he tried his hand at prizefighting. When boxing fans cheered his pre-fight dancing on the resin in the corner of the ring more than his boxing, he took up dancing seriously, incorporating into his act the sand dance that gave him his nickname. Sims steals Nierenberg's film. He loves the attention, claiming to be tap's Muhammed Ali, and in a "weighing-in" ceremony on a city street before the big night, he taunts Green and Briggs, daring them to tap it out "here...