Word: strut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founded the race of Vietnamese. And that's how we came to be different from them and why they strut...
...Evening has no primary characters, but a few stand out because they defy ordinary stereotyping. Roger Hoefer is superb as Roscoe the pimp, along side Mattie Mangrum's equally fine performance as Madam Alberta K. Johnson ("The 'Madam' stands for business"). Both are absolutely confident as they strut around the stage enjoying their lives steeped in desire, running the numbers for low-lifers. Roscoe is all jive and no-give, but he's more than just a superficial pimp on the make, because he can appreciate the "eeeeasy role down in the bassss, Rolling like I like...
Operas are often used as vehicles for big voices to strut their stuff, but the BSOT Abduction includes a lot of comic acting. There is too much mugging and overacting, but these excesses prevent the production from drifting into the sentimentality common in previous performances...
...when he and his wife Jacquie acquired a splendid 15th century Norman manor on the island of Jersey. The 32 green and rolling acres are warmed by the Gulf Stream, and animals have spacious cages with privacy when they want it. The prize whiteeared pheasants from Peking strut amid 100 varieties of flora from their native China. The zoo's keepers (including four who have B.Sc. degrees and one with a Ph.D.) invent projects to prevent the animals from becoming bored...
...conferring with leaders throughout the Argentine political spectrum. As he headed back to Madrid, he endorsed the candidacy of former Dentist Hector Campora, who described himself as Peron's "obsequious servant." Last March, Campora won the election handily, and the stage was set for Perón to strut again...