Word: strutted
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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...
...dance floor couples are doing everything from the Lizard to the Jackdaw Strut in response to the band's high-decibel efforts. As respite to ears and feet, a mentalist is brought out. He memorizes and repeats backward a long list of items thrown at him by the spectators. The answers reflect the evening's mood: lips, left breast, vasectomy, sandbox, postnasal drip. A new arrival, watching from a wallflower's position, gets a friendly approach: "Hi, aren't you talking to anybody? I'm Lois. You shouldn't be shy around here...
...Brooklyn, every alley has a basket and a waiting line of eager cagers. Kids strut around in Converse sneakers with weights on their ankles, trying to develop leg muscles. Adolescence is the crisis period, with fearful 13-year olds marking their height progress on the schoolyard wall each...