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...injecting realism in Hollywood films by "dancing over table tops and down garden paths into the real world." Kracauer was totally wrong - Astaire didn't bring realism but rather a nonchalant nobility to movies - but it's touching that the nutty professor bent his theory to accommodate a tap dancer he loved...
...Anyone with eyes can tell why Astaire was considered the great American dancer. He was the first with the most - the pioneer who was also the supreme refiner. Tap dancing had traditionally been all legwork, with the upper body stationary (think Gene Kelly). Astaire, as his teacher Ned Wayburn noted, "was the first American tap dancer to consciously employ the full resources of his arms, hands and torso for visual ornamentation." Then he integrated ballet and ballroom dance into his style. He wasn't grounded, in the old tap fashion; he floated, soared like Nijinsky. The mood of his dances...
Having majored in finance, Bembry has more formal investment training than most One Thousand Churches ministers, who often tap church members with experience in the financial sector to run the classes. While most seminaries offer at least one business-oriented course on church management, fewer than 10% teach personal finance. "It's the great silent subject, a huge gap in pastoral training," says Dick Towner, who founded the Good $ense Ministry, in South Barrington...
...that, a film about the band entitled Brass on Fire will open at Berlin's Museumsinsel. These won't be staid affairs. "They are phenomenal live entertainment," says Garth Cartwright, a London music journalist and author. Critics point to the virtuosity of bands like Fanfare Ciocarlia, whose musicians can tap 180 beats a minute, to explain their appeal. Others cite the use of traditional instruments in a time of digitized sound machines. "It's music untouched by the 20th century," says Cartwright. Fans are less analytical. "It's beautiful. It's raw. It's out of this world," enthused Miroslav...
...Where did all the water on Mars go when the once warm and wet planet became cold and dry? After studying data from the orbiting Odyssey spacecraft, U.S. scientists believe it's still there, lying just below the surface as a huge sea of ice that future astronauts can tap for drinking water and as a source of hydrogen for fuel. Before human explorers head for Mars, much more study needs to be done by rovers and drill-equipped landers. Still, the scientists say, they're optimistic that the "ice signature" detected by Odyssey's instruments is just...