Word: tap
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DIED. CHOLLY ATKINS, 89, pristinely polished, graceful tap stylist turned choreographer who, as part of artistic development at Motown, engineered the images, costumes and dance movements of such acts as Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles; in Las Vegas...
...like to pick up my flute again, I’d like to take tap-dancing lessons, I’d like to return phone calls more quickly, and spend more time at Southwick wild animal farm with my daughter,” she said...
...Brown ’05 who shows perhaps the most potential of all the exhibited artists. Her subway scenes of a young family and a T-musician are well-composed shots of unexciting subjects. The quality of her self-portrait, however, suggests that she may have the vision to tap into her visual arrangement skills and arrive at terrific...
...Jerry Springer moment," and the chorus dance around him with garlands, the opera displays a touching charm. It's not just the unprintably foul language that is unique. The music is fresh and vibrant; the characters are at once pitiable and funny, and wholly original - except for the uproarious tap-dancing Ku Klux Klan, a tribute to the prancing Nazis in Mel Brooks' The Producers. And that's just the first half. In Act Two Jerry goes to hell to counsel the ultimate dysfunctional family - Satan, Jesus and God - and is forced to confront his own role in people...
...MIGHTY WIND. Anyone who sits through A Mighty Wind, writer/director Christopher Guest’s latest entry in the mockumentary subgenre, will be tempted to make comparisons to Guest’s earlier work, This Is Spinal Tap. While Tap focuses on the disaster-prone tour of a brainless metal band, Wind centers around a disaster-prone tribute concert in memory of a late, legendary folk music producer. The premise is just the sort of odd episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that...