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...that Tatum O'Neal is no longer a kid, what is to be done with her? At 14, this actress is too old to make another Paper Moon or Bad News Bears, yet too young to sashay about in an R-rated remake of Gidget Goes Hawaiian. Tatum is in a real fix, all right, and International Velvet doesn't offer her any help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slow Trot | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...nothing to do with the world of Mack Sennett. It is a steel-toed tap done with biting, insuperable authority by all of the chorus girls fronted by that svelte-legged veteran Lisa Kirk. The scenes related to Mack are curiously weak. In their inimitable garb, the Kops sashay on-and offstage, but they have absolutely no one to chase. Except for their period beach bloomers the "Bathing Beauties" seem to have been stranded on the tide in the guise of wound-up Radio City Music Hall Rockettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Reel Sad | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

Senate pages rubbed ,their eyes in disbelief. In the galleries, tourists gaped. There on the floor of the U.S. Senate was Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, twirling around on tiptoe in an impromptu ballet solo. "Boys and girls, sit down," Dirksen ordered in mid-sashay. "We are going to show you how to operate a trucking enterprise. Get yourself a good look. We will show you choreography. Get yourself a good look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Pas de Dirksen | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...second week of spring and summer showings, Parisian haute couture managed to sashay back to the hip-flask era, blast off into far-outer space, and keep fashion pundits' necks swiveling as if they were covering an inter-aeon Davis Cup match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Inter-Aeon Game | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...Unsaleable Molly Brown is a massive song-and-dancer derived from Meredith Willson's also-ran Broadway musical of 1-960. Defying the laws of levity, it follows an ebullient, money-grubbing Irish lass who marries a miner and gets rich so she can sashay in Denver's high society. When the bluebloods snub her, she flounces off to Yurrup to bring home some dukes and duchesses, finally earns her place among the snobs and saves her marriage-for reasons clear only to musical comedy authors-by surviving the Titanic disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Reynolds to the Rescue | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

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