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Songs Unwritten: A Tap Dancer Remembered...
...most people, the term "tap-dancing" conjures images of saccharinesweet little girls in sequined costumes, shuffle-stepping in time to "The Good Ship Lollipop" as part of a painfully long church talent show...
...growing number are discovering the legacy of the tap innovators who, during their heyday in the thirties and forties, took their art as far and regarded their art as seriously as better known contemporaries like Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillespie did with music...
...While controlling a tap at a crowded party, the seventh only poured beer for her muscular friends. For ignoring weasly but thirsty people like me, she's dead...
Thus began one of the nation's worst inland oil spills ever. Within 24 hours, 23,000 people in the Pittsburgh area found themselves without tap water. An additional 750,000 were forced to ration their drinking water, 1,200 families were temporarily evacuated, dozens of factories had to shut down, schools were closed and commercial traffic on the river was halted. The oil entered the Ohio River at Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, and by week's end the scene had been replayed downriver as far as Steubenville, Ohio, where an ice jam slowed the oil's progress. Wheeling...