Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remove the racial bitterness. The result: Black and Blue, the sumptuously spectacular $5 million revue that opened last week on Broadway. If Fred and Ginger had been black and still able to live in that elegant fantasy world, their shows might have looked a lot like this: rows of tap dancers in tailcoats or scarlet evening gowns; vast sets like lacquered jewel boxes gliding across the floor and opening to reveal a kick line; a singer in a swing, wearing a cloak that billows 18 ft. down to the floor...
...creators, Claudio Segovia and Hector Orezzoli (Tango Argentino, Flamenco Puro), this is gorgeous and joyous entertainment. And in its reverence for veteran talents, the kind who have bounced from headlining to working as kitchen help and back again, the show is faithful to the folkloric traditions of tap, jazz and blues...
...dancing opens with a traditional tap challenge, each man showing his best stuff in turn. Savion Glover, 15, who enacted The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway in 1983, is predictably upstaged by such snowy-haired hoofers as Bunny Briggs, Lon Chaney and Ralph Brown. Glover reappears in a breakneck gymnastic number, hopping up and down stairs, while his elders return in slow, sentimental sequences to demonstrate the traditional tap presumption that less can be more. That is in contrast to the basic notion of Black and Blue, which seems to be that more is more. Yet in the understated moments...
...heart of all such homes is a small computer that can link any number of kitchen appliances, security devices, and TV and stereo components. That computer can receive signals from telephones, hand-held controllers or touch- sensitive video screens. One tap on the screen of a typical system brings up a schematic diagram of the house. Another tap produces a display of the air temperature in every room. By selecting from a series of menu choices, the homeowner can tell the house to heat the bedrooms to a comfy 72 degrees F while leaving the rest of the rooms...
...your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts," says Fuller. Like a peripatetic preacher, he makes his folksy "theology of the hammer" spiels to audiences all over the world, trying to tap into what he contends is "an incredible reservoir of goodwill out there...