Word: tappings
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...getting his giant palm between an Iowa shot and the basket, that palm was there. Russell's teammates took it easy, too, passed and wove in careful patterns until Russell was in place in the slot, then attacked. When they missed, the Russell palm was there to tap the shot in. It was all so smooth and so exasperating to the Hawkeyes that they finally broke down into just the kind of basketball they had disdained all season: wild, promiscuous shots in an effort to score. Behind at the half, they never caught up. Final score: San Francisco...
Edited by Conductor Johnson and Music Teacher Perso. Secrets was scaled down to a trim 23 minutes, highlighted by The Ballad of Mort, the Whale, Lobster Dante, Ballet of the Octopus and Sea Horse Gallop, a tap dance in 6/8 time, as well as Susan Freiberg's Minuet of the Shrimp. The local critics disdained to cover the premiere, but Conductor Johnson thought Sea Secrets good enough to be shown to a music publisher. Said he: "It is beautiful in its whimsicality...
...personality blends with drinks on tables; he himself has the air of a host who is always dashing about to show his guests something new. His unusual versatility, again, would pay off better if it were all done in one piece, if it could quick-change, nightclub-style, from tap dancing (Sammy's real forte) to vocalizing to clever imitations to blowing a trumpet to banging the traps...
...point of asphyxiation. Hartley's technical aplomb helped to make The Go-Between (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954) one of the most admired novels of its year. In A Perfect Woman he demonstrates with good humor and feline subtlety how many ways there are for an author to tap and bat his characters around before crunching them jovially on the last page...
From the opening tap-off, Barnett followed Tebo like a hawk. Not until the thirteen-minute mark did Tebo score his first basket of the game, and that on a 30-foot set shot...