Word: tappers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seth Tapper...
...screaming with a "camera-as-new-toy" aestheticism. The footage from the "Stone Age," the early years of dance on film, features clumsy chorus lines whose tubby legs bespeak better cooking than choreography. Clowning aside, That's Dancing includes a superb dance by Eleanor Powell, the greatest female tapper ever who, because of her less-than-mediocre acting, never enjoyed the popular fame her footwork deserved. On the floor, she is simply astonishing. Another inclusion oft-neglected elsewhere is the Nicholas Brothers' rubber-legged vaudeville routine from Down Argentine Way. Shirley Temple shares a charming tap duet with the original...
...radiant smile that never faded through a medley of mostly Gershwin songs. Here, too, she taught the others a lesson, for rather than self-consciously choosing one approach or the other, she simply skated as the music demanded: lyrical to a love song, witty with a Broadway toe-tapper, intelligent and expressive in every mood and movement...
...Bruce Weller lofted a lazy fly to left that MIT gardener Ron Bujarski hatcheted into a two-base error and when Engineer first baseman Carl Nowiszewski dropped Bujarski's relay, allowing Weller to get to third, and Lyman to score. And when shortstop Chuck Souter deposited Brad Bauer's tapper somewhere beind first base coach Danny Skaff to bring home Weller. Noll began feeling downright sorry for himself. So sorry that after Bauer stole second, he threw a wild pitch...