Word: skittered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lungs of iron and feet that skitter like a sandpiper's. When he beams, the sun comes out. When he is troubled, the sky falls on Chicken Little. And when he leers, he is the naughtiest boy in class. Class is also the word for his partner and costar, Ann Miller. When haven't we missed her long, lithesome legs? The years have left them far sounder than most currencies. Her taps are tops, routines done with effortless style and sophisticated rhythms. Do we miss burlesque, which forms the substance of Sugar Babies (if sheer fluff has substance...
...comfortable, decked with the heterogeneous souvenirs of a long life?rows of Indian pottery, elegantly woven tribal baskets and a huge Chinese ceremonial drum. The piano player's head, a bald mass, gleams in the light. His hands, swollen from arthritis, hardened by decades of immersion in darkroom chemicals, skitter over the keys, assaulting the same phrase again and again. "Damn," he says, "I've lost it." But not altogether. Once you have practiced to concert discipline, even 50 years ago, the traces still show. "There used to be a relationship between my piano and my photography," says Ansel Adams...
...choice is their student government or back to the caves. "All or nothing, and we can change it next year." But when we're stuck with a constitution we spend all our energies amending, an Assembly that floats along on rhetoric, endless resolutions and ad hoc committees that skitter over the basic issue of our lack of influence, then we're really stuck...
...footing, so too did the layered system of the hockey team. The system relies on waves of players who provide a constant back-up to the line directly in front. The field's condition, which included several sets of truck tire marks, caused the ball to constantly skitter through all the layers...
...Skitter Bed. Tacked to Sutherland's dressing-room wall is another Fellini cartoon showing the director and his star running for their lives, pointing the finger of blame at each other, while from the clouds, a furious Casanova is brandishing a sword and screaming at them: "Bastards...