Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finding the time to write is a problem. Hughes spent ten years on The Fatal Shore. "It was a constant tap dance between the magazine and the book," says he. Friedrich worked weekends for four years to finish City of Nets. Senior Editor Walter Isaacson labored late at night and during weeks off on The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (Simon & Schuster), a chronicle of the U.S. foreign policy establishment co-with former Associate Editor Evan Thomas. "Even so," says Isaacson, "it took three years...
...destructive; they were two strong wills making success possible and life miserable. "Aaron began booking me into theaters," Bette says, "and lo and behold, I was a big success. For our first full revue, we had our backup trio, the Harlettes, and a great band and girls in tap-dancing clothes and the jukebox and the mannequins and King Kong. It just blew me away!" Bette was a Broadway star...
...dexterity. It is also as good a working definition of funk as you will ever find. The professor died in 1980, but there is a whole generation of peerless piano players, like Huey ("Piano") Smith, Allen Toussaint and Mac ("Dr. John") Rebennack, forever in his debt. He was the tap source of New Orleans rock...
...thanks to a decision to tap the endowment's revenue a bit more energetically next year than in years past, undergraduates will pay just a little less than previously thought for coming semesters on the Charles. (Don't worry, tuition will increase, just not as much as everyone thought...
Toss in a ballet dancer whose work epitomizes the cultural ascendancy of Western Civilization, a man who learned his art in Soviet Russia but fled to the West so that he could bring about the long-awaited union of ballet and tap-dancing for the silver screen, and you've got a gala Pudding opening night...