Word: shoving
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McCulloh, premier high jumper, pushed a tray through the Quincy House cafeteria line. It was Bicentennial night at Quincy, and McCulloh, who works as a checker there, took nearly 15 minutes to shove through the line speaking with and good naturedly jeering at friends resplendent in star-spangled vests 'and hats...
...wouldn't need much of a shove...
Nikolais's works seem to shove his company members to the side. He doesn't let his dancers become too human, but neither will he, nor can he, obliterate their humanness. At times he lets human figures scuttle across the stage, marring the abstract canvas, interrupting the kaleidoscope, yet filling in what's humorous and profound in his work...
Splat Falls. Push Comes to Shove is the name of the ballet; its inventor is Choreographer Twyla Tharp. Last week it was unveiled by the American Ballet Theater at Manhattan's Uris Theater, and it just might be the most important event of the dance year. With cinematic speed, the cast of characters tumbles around the stage to the sounds of Haydn's 82nd Symphony. Isn't that Buster Keaton? There's Joe Namath and a courtful of jokers, heroes and heroines all. Linked by sheer velocity, the steps merge in combinations that are silly...
Sargent Shriver, speaking from atop his campaign bus, "The John Fitzgerald Camelot Honey Fitz John-John Memorial Express," tells a Harvard audience, "Some people say, 'America, Love It or Leave It.' Well, in this bicentennial year I say, 'America, Save It or Shove...