Word: toe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Atencio brushed the dust off the toe of a moccasin-sensible footgear, the color of bare earth after rain-and in the doing he seemed to dismiss the impertinence. He continued gently, "If you are sitting in church praying and someone knocks at the door, what happens to you? That is what we are talking about...
...They wait for hours for the chance to spend, in most cases, scant minutes standing onstage before being rejected and hastened out the door. A few are on a lark, and some may be on a mystical private trip: one young woman wears a lifelike head-to-toe bear costume, which she refuses to take off even to dance. But most are serious of purpose, and many are attractive and talented. In all, some 2,000 would-be performers are shuffled through, and 300 are called back for further auditions; eventually, perhaps one or two will be cast. Yet even...
...buying boots to cover soldiers' toe...
...needed in recent years. Until her Olympic appearance, one ideal had been sacrificed to the other. But grace and athleticism are not mutually exclusive, as Witt convincingly proved. Her free-skating program was the most technically difficult of all the competitors, and included three triple jumps and a triple toe loop in combination with a double jump that she performed faultlessly in the opening seconds. With that difficult maneuver safely tucked away on the judges' scorecards, she broke into a radiant smile that never faded through a medley of mostly Gershwin songs. Here, too, she taught the others...
...Only. A trunkful of Gershwin songs, colorful sets from a wise child's kindergarten and a pair of toe-tapping charmers in Twiggy and Tommy Tune make for Broadway's airiest enchantment...