Word: strutted
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...most of the children are in the theater tent now-the "Khao I Dang National Theater"-milling and chattering with expectation. Then the bright pink curtains part, showing a backdrop painting of Angkor Wat. The xylophone plays the water-drop music. The dancers enter. The boys strut, the girls cock their hands and heads and do not smile. They glow with color, their dark brown skins set off by the deep blues, reds and greens of their sarongs and sashes. They do four dances, starting with a hunting dance in which a small boy brandishes a spear and tries...
...plutocrats did theirs, has seized the Morgan Library to avenge an outrage inflicted on his prized Model T. It is a splendid tale with sweeping images and passions, needing no dialogue-just the occasional flash of a newspaper headline and the sound of a ragtime piano, working its funereal strut...
...Jazzercise instructor in rural Hopewell, N.J., cheers: "Pretend your boyfriend is watching! Strut your stuff!" Up to 50 women in leotards perform a fast dance routine to the tape-recorded rock. Their movements variously suggest college cheerleaders or amateur night with a Junior League chorus line...
...concrete coliseums built to carry the cheers and groans of as sorted jockathons up into the air; acoustics were hardly a consider ation. This may not matter, any how. Crowds in the hundreds of thousands are turning out to hear the boys run some numbers and watch Mick Jagger strut his stuff...
...joint in the world. He wastes little: in go twigs, seeds, everything, until it seems as big as a torpedo. Other joints are tucked over each ear, and more are secreted in plastic bags under his hat. It is Friday night, the night to get high, get drunk and strut. Baby Love's entire wrecking crew is here, sprawled over cars, squatting on the sidewalk, jiving. There is Shistang ("He be cool with dice"), Little Spank, Gugu, Snake Eyes, Shilo, Spider Man, Daddy Rich, Little June, Snatch Pocket Earl and Snootchy Fingers...