Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a supporting role. Mark White, 44, elected Governor of Texas in 1982, has only a meager track record, but his presence on the ticket could help win his state's 29 electoral votes for the Democrats. If Ohio's 23 electoral votes look pivotal, Mondale might tap Senator John Glenn...
...lights come up on a young woman standing awkwardly, boldly, downstage center. She is wearing a leotard, mesh stockings and tap shoes. Without a word of explanation she picks up a white rifle and begins twirling it to the strains of the Star-Spangled Banner. Before the national anthem is finished, she will work flips, splits, flag waving and roman candles into the hilariously awful act she is practicing. Doing this lunatic parody of a beauty contest talent routine without onstage preparation or any chance to establish character is, for an actress, the equivalent of an operatic soprano hitting...
...foreign companies. Since 1945 U.S. corporations have been able to invest only $2 billion in Japan, while the Japanese have invested about $14 billion in the U.S. Easing restrictions will make it simpler for U.S. businessmen to operate in Japan, as well as allow foreign firms to tap Japan's relatively cheap capital markets. Officials on both sides hope that President Reagan and Prime Minister Nakasone will be able to sign a yen agreement in London at the June economic summit...
...gentle caricature of a Broadway producer in 42nd Street. Believing that one of the most entertaining subjects to be made into musical theater is musical theater itself. David Merrick (a real-life Julian Marsh) has taken a 1930s musical, wrapped it in extravagant sets and costumes, revitalized extensive tap-dancing routines for the familiar score, and recreated what he modestly calls "the song and dance fable of Broadway." Indeed, Merrick has brought back the old-style high-kicking Broadway musical of elaborate production numbers connected only loosely by a tired and cliched book...
...nostalgic penchant for traditional Broad way spectacles enchants you one can not do much better than 42nd Street. The music, the costumes, the story, and of course the tap-dancing is of the straight forward old-fashinoed make-them-leave-the-theatre-happy-and-humming type, it worked well enough during the Depression. And it provides a rather harmless evening of musical theatre...