Word: strut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flouncing down to the footlights to sing Take Back Your Mink in a new Las Vegas production of Guys and Dolls was a Miss Adelaide whose show-pony strut, blinding blonde curls and 37-24-35 measurements have not changed since she was queen of the Fox lot in the '40s. Bouncy Betty Grable, 46, was back onstage for fun and profit-and besides, it was all so convenient. She and Bandleader Husband Harry James now live in Las Vegas ("I just report for the show at 8 and go home at n"), where she has been playing golf...
...very much the image of its deceptively easygoing editor. By newsroom standards, Bill Baggs, 40, makes an ideal boss. He keeps a brass cuspidor within reachable trajectory of his desk, shows visitors the bullet hole that some disgruntled subscriber drilled through his office window, and lets his staffers strut their stuff. "Hell. I don't have much to do," he says, and proves it by writing a daily column and occasional editorials, and by often accompanying his men on out-of-town assignments. "The best ideas that show up in the paper come from guys out in the newsroom...
...other experienced players for M.I.T. are captain Monro Labouisse, and seniors Joe Rappaport and Joe Strut, playing at two, three, and four. Labouisse was the man Meyer had to displace to get the number one spot...
...also rises. Too much maligned as the lowest form of humor, it can soar for a brief moment. And in good hands, words can be made to jump, molt, wiggle, shrink, flash, collide, fight, strut, and turn themselves inside out or upside down. They do in this volume of 57 light poems and five airy essays by Felicia Lamport. She briskly suggests that By Love Possessed might well have been written "by Henry James, gulled, cozened." She wonders if spacemen are headed for the "lunar bin." She worries about that poor fellow "who felt his old Krafft ebbing...
Pacer's Strut. Nowadays, an American mother need not riffle through her Spock with alarm upon observing that her daughter has developed the unnatural strut of a pacer. When she begins walking around the living room sticking out her chest, mother should know that her daughter has merely caught a whiff of a booming mania, and that soon the child will become a drum majorette...