Word: tap
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...finals at Cambridge University. That initial effort became White Teeth (Random House; 448 pages; $24.95), a book that has finally made it to the U.S. side of the ocean and that Smith describes in the British arts magazine Butterfly as "the literary equivalent of a hyperactive, ginger-haired, tap-dancing 10-year...
...same can be said of Smith. She planned to be a tap dancer ("I got too fat") or a jazz singer ("I wasn't as good as Aretha"), despite a lifelong interest in writing. She grew up in an irreligious, working-class household in London. Her father, a onetime photographer, and her mother, a model turned child psychoanalyst, divorced when she was 12. Smith took to writing short stories and poetry during an adolescence she describes as "pathologically angst ridden." She hasn't outgrown the angst: her manner is painfully serious, even defensive, despite the success of White Teeth, which...
Kate A. Agresta '02 was there to watch her roommate Becca P. Mercer '02 auction off a "singing, tap dancing telegram" from their third roommate Heather G. Childs...
...exception. Microsoft's idea of making the system more intuitive seems to be limited to moving the "Start" menu from the lower-left corner of the screen to the upper left and adding an almost invisible button marked OK in the top right, which you need to tap all the time but invariably forget. Too often I was more conscious of operating the system than concentrating on the task at hand...
...also choreographed) and Colleen Gargan '02 simply sizzle in the elaborate dance sequences, while Alexa Fields '01 is delightful as Fatima, the courtesan/bookkeeper who just isn't quite right for "the business." The 11 o'clock number goes to the Head Courtesan, Matt Romero '02. "Oh, Diogenes!" launches a tap marathon sure to rev the audience up for the pending finale...