Word: strutters
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...almost a divertissement, basically more evidence of Robbins' obsession with the problems of partnering. His major work for City Ballet in this busy spring is Glass Pieces, a 26-minute work set to the minimalist compositions of Philip Glass. This ballet shows the bold side, the brainy city strutter in Robbins. Formal, clear and well structured, it is his strongest work in years. It begins with 33 dancers, dressed in multicolored practice clothes, walking briskly across the stage, each alone, no two taking precisely the same route. This traffic is directed by Glass's galvanizing Rubric: loud, brash...
...same moral pretensions have traditionally been a part of country music, persistent themes of infidelity and violence are passed on in a didactic spirit. Until the mid-twenties a considerable stock of music existed that was played by both races ( John Henry, Corinne, Corrina or Dark Town Strutter's Ball ) but only the white singing groups attached to their music an ethical message...
...Anouilh and played on Broadway by Sir Ralph Richardson and Mildred Natwick-it was a brilliantly dressy slapstick satire: a show most wise and cruel when it seemed most raucous and extravagant. As a screenplay-written by Wolf Mankowitz and directed by John Guillermin-Anouilh's fine-feathered strutter has been saponified, caponified, shorn of its more splendid plumes of wit and stuffed with a mighty chunk of supererogatory and rashly overcolored celluloid that might have been more sensibly and even profitably employed to blow up the bank that financed this picture...
...over a Pearson column portraying MacArthur as a swaggering strutter. The suit was eventually settled out of court...
...first-class hot-jazz players (Muggsy Spanier, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, George Brunies*). But usually the musicians are purely a supporting cast to Lewis himself. He is a one-man synthesis of U.S. show business at its showiest. Under full steam, Ted Lewis embodies the Shakespearean ham, the minstrel strutter, the carnival drum major, the medicine barker, the vaudeville tearjerker, the circus buffoon, the ragtime sport-all among the most fondly regarded figures in U.S. life...