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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...
...film pencil Bookings. Much of the recent independent animation in the U.S. has been done by one-time VES 153 teachers and students. George Griffin taught it last year, Mary Beams Phillips the year before. Frank Mouris, who won an Academy Award, Eliot Noyes, famous for his sand film Sandman, and Caroline Leaf, whose experiments have been so numberous and noteworthy the last Center Screen showing will be devoted to her work--all are old friends of Carpenter Center. The movies in the New Personal Animation that are not products of the National Film Board of Canada, the British Film...
Narcotic spaceshot put-ons in the memory of great rock'n'roll continued with "Sandman"--another song spaced into lost perception. And finally, oh finally, "Cat" Davis came jogging through the gym, stripped of her warm-up and donning her Everlast gloves. I was expecting, something like a roller derby queen, but the "Cat" was very real. She was beautiful, to begin with--in peak athletic condition with tight, firm skin and muscles; a cute, but tomboyish face under a flock of long, curly blonde hair. Her sparring partner was a short, pudgy guy--and they just goofed around...
Much of the reaction to Nixon's self-defense was scathing-even from some erstwhile Nixon stalwarts. Said Charles Sandman, the New Jersey Republican who was Nixon's staunches! supporter on the House Judiciary Committee and later lost his congressional seat for his troubles: "He was humble, but does that change his guilt...