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...prison-yard crew. Their chant is slow and syncopated, with beats of silence between syllables to underscore the sarcasm; their steps are punctuated by the swish and rattle of chains. The costumes display Fosse trademarks: white gloves, hats, spangled tuxedos. So do the dances, with their hip and shoulder rolls, backward exits and slithering one-hand gestures down the torso. The first-act climax, a mob convulsion set to Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar, recaps the form-in- formlessness trick that Fosse calls "the amoeba." His sultry sexual trio for Me and My Shadow derives from his Tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Slick, Sassy, Borrowed and Blue | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Cagney's pugnacious, straight-from-the-shoulder style and his genuine modesty ("I was always a journeyman actor," he once said) belied both his professionalism and his artistic versatility. He could portray protean Actor Lon Chaney in the film biography Man of a Thousand Faces as easily as the irascible ship's captain in Mister Roberts. His performance as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired Director Max Reinhardt to label him the "best actor in Hollywood." White Heat contains a typical bit of Cagney , business, less a trick than a nuance. He had the killer Cody Jarrett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was All Big - and It Worked:James Cagney: 1899-1986 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Donald McKayle choreographed the next piece, "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," describing the experiences of men on a chain gang in the South in the early 20th century. The dance alternated between scenes of the men at work and sketches of the men's dreams about their sweethearts, mothers and wives. Like "Blues Suite," this work gives the men in the company an opportunity to demonstrate their technical brilliance when dancing in an ensemble...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Not Ailing | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

...have six passengers and a stewardess," said Louis Daddario, administrator on duty at Boston City Hospital. "As far as we know, they are all minor injuries, basically bumps, bruises, their shoulder hurts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12 Injured as Airplane Hits Turbulence | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

...used to have to get broken into it. A lot of pitchers seem older than their years today, but Gooden most of all. Also, he's got one of the best curves I ever saw--he throws it so hard! The damn thing breaks nearly from the guy's shoulder to the ground." Evidently, Hubbell has been studying him on television. "That's the kids' advantage, don't you see? I was raised on a cotton farm in Meeker, Okla. Didn't even get a newspaper. Never saw so much as a picture of a real major league pitcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dr. K Is King of the Hill | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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