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IMPERIAL BELLS OF CHINA. The clang and whir of hypnotic musical instruments, the swish of dancers' 6-ft. sleeves and the rainbow splendor of ceremonial robes are explained by Gregory Peck's recorded narration in this imported spectacle now touring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 8, 1989 | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...Castle, learned to count on a scoreboard. Ever since Alford was a high school "Mr. Basketball," the Midwestern equivalent of a peerage, even his regimen on the foul line has been as famous in Indiana as the frost. (Touch your socks, your shorts; one dribble, two dribbles, three; shoot, swish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Basketball's Knight-Errant | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...contact with the rim, no squaring up to the basket, no firm grip on the ball. No swish...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: The Beauty of One Ugly Shot | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

...about his infant son. One number is an instant classic: the upbeat Ain't We Got Fun is rendered with icy irony by a prison-yard crew. Their chant is slow and syncopated, with beats of silence between syllables to underscore the sarcasm; their steps are punctuated by the swish and rattle of chains. The costumes display Fosse trademarks: white gloves, hats, spangled tuxedos. So do the dances, with their hip and shoulder rolls, backward exits and slithering one-hand gestures down the torso. The first-act climax, a mob convulsion set to Beat Me, Daddy, Eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Slick, Sassy, Borrowed and Blue | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...massacre continued. Seven straight Cornell points, swish, swish, swish, click, click, click...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Behind the Brouhaha at Barton | 2/25/1986 | See Source »

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