Word: strut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revivals are not only a play's test; they are a showcase for actors to strut their stuff. Sweet Bird has one terrific part: the frowsy monster of a princess...
...none of the nervousness of the early concerts with the Band in 1974 when they had to coax him back on stage by playing "Stage Fright." This time he was confident, exuberant, and keeping it directed, bouncing on the balls of both feet, then going into a cocky strut across the stage, over to his new fiddler, Scarlet Rivera, and dancing around...
...Kansas of The Wiz is as close to middle America as Harlem's Lenox Avenue at 125th Street. The show, with all new music and lyrics, is saucy with black urban humor. Its talk is jumping jivernacular, its walk is a big-city strut, its dances have a blowtorch frenzy, and its songs range from a warm gospel glow to the rock beat of a riveter mining asphalt...
...house and his wife says "You've been with Kagle today." (Kagle is Slocum's limping co-worker). And he says, "How do you know?" So he didn't know he's picking up a limp. Now that, I think, is surrealistic. I think a person might develop a strut or a swagger, that of somebody else with whom he associates, but certainly not a limp. whom he associates, but certainly not a limp...
Forefeel of Fame. "Apart from incipient lunacy," writes Vadim, "I have been in excellent health throughout adulthood." He can be pleased with a literary career, which brought him in youth the heady "forefeel of fame" and later allowed him to strut as "a fat, famous writer in his powerful forties." Lechery has been a constant, though a Humbert-Lolita relationship with his daughter never flowered to the extent that he, in damp imagining, would have liked. Yet to each of four prospective brides, he has had to admit that he is cracked: "I have a confession to make, Iris, concerning...