Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then I jumped out." Her husband and friends survived, but her house was badly damaged. Ray Linton, another Monterey Park resident, salvaged little more than a stereo, a couple of cans of honey and some dented pans from his house, which collapsed. For drinking water, some people had to tap their hot tubs...
...York Public Library. Let's face it, a musical version of Little Women just isn't going to grab me." What does grab Robbins, it seems, is the opportunity to create an entire society onstage through dance. West Side Story and Fiddler both contain dream ballets that tap the subconscious aspirations and nightmares of their respective ethnic enclaves. In West Side Story's Dance at the Gym and Fiddler's Wedding Dance specific social customs and rituals of courtship and marriage are rethought in balletic terms. With its gingerly folk touches and communal feeling, Robbins...
...event progresses, Daniel remains quiet except to comment on the pace or a swimmer's stroke. Occasionally he will tap his pencil against his notebook before predicting--accurately--the eventual winner...
...THAT JAZZ, the camera is an ethereal, puckish tap-dancer, never holding an image for more than a few seconds, popping around incessantly in search of new perspectives. Director Bob Fosse seems to want every possible angle on a scene; even when he holds a shot, a huge mirror in the background offers a second view. The visual style of the movie is nothing less than epic, but it's at war throughout with the relentlessly limited perspective of the heavy-handed script, with the characters who remain flat from any angle...
...Seventy per cent of students polled support the ERA, and we want to tap that support," Jung said to the group, which included about ten men and several people wearing "59 cents" buttons (to indicate the average amount a woman earns for every dollar a man earns...