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...ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines in giddily precise formations or the Nicholas Brothers take flight and dare each other to come down first...
...then there's Fred Astaire. When Asaire dazzles his way through "A Shine on Your Shoes." "Pick Yourself Up," and "Night and Day," . . . well, it's no secret: when God Himself dances. He imitates Fred Astaire...
...mood sometimes had its shadowed side, a touch of self-righteousness and meanness, a hint of the old nativist punitive zeal, it also showed great shine. America made a pageant of itself, erupting in a procession of spectacles of sudden self-celebration, all red, white and blue: the political conventions a turbulent sea of Old Glories, the campaign (the Reagan campaign, anyway) a triumphal masterpiece of the politics of mood. Walter Mondale ran a depressive, cautionary race, preaching selflessness and self-denial, his speeches like the parable of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf (the savage, devouring...
...teacher inside Ueberroth was always working. If he detected that a colleague was not using all of his skills, he flashed annoyance. And he was exhilarated when he saw someone shine. He constantly tested and challenged those around him, often sounding preachy, sometimes downright rude when he interrupted in mid-sentence, pushing them to be better. "By now," remembers Ueberroth, "we felt the reputation of the country was at stake. It was frightening." Often he would stroll through the hangar, sure to prod with questions, and more questions: the exact location of Rwanda or the spelling of the names...
...most stores, the majority of buyers are yuppies who want to shine up that fresh-faced look for their race up the ladder. "My father thinks it's awful. He uses Ivory," says John Gormley, 26, who is working for his architecture degree at the University of Texas at Arlington. "But it seems like in my age group everybody is using a lot of men's skin-care products." Blacks are among the most enthusiastic fans. J-Christopher Phelps, 22, a Chicago modern dancer, started with a shave cream to reduce the irritation of razor bumps, a curse...