Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are tap masters: Green slides in subtle steps, the soul dancer of the three, smooth, profound. Briggs adds a Hollywood flash. He waggles his hips as he taps, throws in a little jump, grins like a self-satisfied, grown-up L'il Rascal. Amazingly, the Sandman outsteps his friends, dancing like Ali if Ali had been a dancer, cool, hustling, full of street energy and showmen's finesse, heel to toe, over and over in a thousand combinations. Nierenberg's camera captures each...
...laugh or a big cry. Benton edited the film perfectly and an hour and a half passes without notice. But his style is somehow out of synch with his subject. The rough edges that are an essential part of Ted and Joanna's break-up are masked inthe smooth flow...
Rock is still a kind of music-and a life-style-in which women are frequently called "chicks" and are, as performers or presences, expected to behave accordingly. You cluck prettily. You smooth your feathers nicely. You don't try to take over the barnyard. When Carolyne Mas says, "I'm not a chick singer," she is not so much handing down a manifesto as setting up an aesthetic credo. Mas has no special interest in forcing some shotgun wedding of feminist politics and rock; neither do the others. They sing songs of personal reflection, not propaganda...
...ballet, though, did have contact with the singers. One tenor, who is a married man with kids, spent most of his time chasing after the ballet women, one or two in particular. He was very much on the make, smooth and slick...
Burger pointed to the Justices' nine high-backed leather chairs. Each justice chose his own, and the sizes and styles varied. Some were nearly a foot taller than others. Douglas's was tufted, the otherws were smooth. It looked unseemly, disorderly, Burger said. In the future, only one kind of chair would be available...