Word: sways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrenching effect of advanced age for a dancer, together with the agelessness of the spirit of dance. Another standout is an amusing stunt number called "Fourteen Feet," which might have been titled "Look Ma, No Feet!" Seven dancers implant their feet in nailed-down clogs and proceed to sway, shake and swivel. At one point the lighting trans forms them into electric eels. Electric they...
...started again, crossed a little more than halfway. The cable began to sway. Wallenda leaned forward to keep his balance. One young member of his troupe, waiting on the roof at the far end of the wire, warned him to crouch down for better balance...
This sudden student opposition to the constitution could be a simple gut reaction to something new and a consequence of the proclivity of Harvard students to find fault in almost anything. If so, there is a definite possibility that convention members could sway this negative reaction by illustrating their faith in the new constitution as the best alternative to the fairly miserable current state of student influence on policy decisions at Harvard. A lot depends on the impressions students have about the authors of the constitution If there is a feeling that the convention delegates are building castles...
...intensive lobbying efforts of several minority leaders--many of whom spent the entire weekend making phone calls to convention delegates--combined with the impressive turnout of a far-from-reticent group of minority students, held sway...
...lobby, the chorus lingers and mingles with larger-than-life-size cutouts of hotel guests, bell-hops and beach umbrellas, all of which give the stage an effective style halfway between art deco and '70s surrealism. None of the flesh and blood lingers in the second act. The cutouts sway and stir as each character dashes madly around. Laurel Leslie, playing Susie, is consistently good, but is truly at her best here, switching costumes, rescuing her brother, dancing Charlestons and tangos, and looking rattled throughout. If, as her brother says, her mind is in her dancing shoes, then she clearly...