Word: strut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast Irish castle, where scores of beady-eyed peacocks strut and scream about the lawns and terraces and a moldering stone wall shuts off the outside world, an aged English butler is dying. From time to time he groans out the name of an unknown loved one-"Ellen, Ellen...
...their stately, rambling hacienda house, ringed by a 15-foot brick-and-adobe wall, servants rush out at the toot of a horn to open the wide iron-plate gates. Peacocks strut in the shade of the garden's lemon and eucalyptus trees, and dark-suited waiters move through the great halls inside, passing golden glasses of fine manzanilla sherry from Spain and serving tortillas on the end of a knife blade. La Punta can accommodate 30 guests with all the comforts of a metropolitan hotel...
Shankar has included about 60 dance sequences-of peasants and gods, love and death, of factories and demons. Swords clash and warriors strut; lovers grieve and stab themselves; workers are whipped; gods curse; a group of students rebel against their teachers. In all these dances, Shankar uses only Indian instruments, the ancient ragas (modes), and the hundreds of gestures-a bent finger, a turned-up toe, a roll of the eyes-that have carried the same meanings to Indians for centuries...
...once but three times in a week, German Communism called its ranks to strut their stuff in the city's scarred streets. But their stuff was cheap and shoddy, and the significant news when it was all over was that Communism here had once more betrayed its virtual bankruptcy...
Hoagy Carmichael (Sun. 5:30 p.m., CBS). Jazz-singing with shape, strut and style...