Word: waltzed
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...Flotow. The spirit of the work, though, hovers somewhere between operetta and masque. The use of ragtime is limited to exhilarating dance finales: Aunt Dinah Has Blowed de Horn at the end of Act I and A Real Slow Drag at the final curtain. Elsewhere one can find a waltz and even barbershop quartet. Infusing everything is Joplin's ear for melody, which made his rags so fetching and regaling...
...that frustrated Tap Dancer Barbara Walters had been waiting for. She got it finally last week when she filled in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight show. Guest Gene Kelly graciously appraised Barbara's potential. After a few turns round the set, Barbara asked Gene to check her waltz clog (a tap step) because "I can't click my heels together properly." In no time Gene was showing Barbara how to tap and it was clear that Barbara's latent ambitions were aflame. "It hasn't been the field I've made...
...opposite directions and bumping their hips together three or four times. Then there is a shift of the left foot so that the partners can face each other diagonally and rhythmically throw punches into the air. Next they move into a contact dance, as precisely orchestrated as a waltz, during which the male rains soft blows on the girl's derrière, striking her on beat. Some partners also aim mighty kicks at each other-without contact...
...hockey face-off, then jumped into a sleigh with Diahann to sing (in Sunday churchgoer's baritone) It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas. Taking a break, Lindsay suddenly spun out on the ice and asked a member of the chorus to join him for a Dutch waltz. Said Diahann admiringly: "He's the kind of man to whom you always want to extend a hand of help. I think it's his vulnerability...
Giant Amoeba. A few samples of his listener-grabbing gambits make clear why stations buzz Bennett. In a rating battle with another station in New Orleans, he played The Blue Danube Waltz every hour, just before the other station's newscast. "After a while," he explains, "people began to hate The Blue Danube and switch over to the other station. But when they did, all they heard was news. At the end of 30 days, most of the kids in town thought our competition was an all-news station." In Pine Bluff, Ark., figuring he could do just...