Word: slithering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night the whole perspective changes. Walking alone, one is confronted with crowds of people standing and, so it would seem, jeering with a mixture of envy and sarcasm. Or one meets a series of full-breasted and gold-toothed women who slither up and ask the perrennial question...
...shoulders on which it rests. A master of patterned action, he has established the tensions, the instinctive hates and induced animosities, the juvenile-delinquent heroics and brooding-outcast rancors of Manhattan's native-born Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks. His switchblade rumblers jeer and snort, crouch and slither and spring. Beyond vitalizing their gang spirit and varying their modes of warfare, he has managed to dance much of the documentary drabness out of the story, most of the sociological shock into it. He is least successful in a ballet where the ill-fated lovers-a former...
...straight furrow in bare feet, and feels the good black soil of the valley squinch between his toes. It is Faulkner country, but there is a difference between Deal's Tuxahatchie and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha. In Faulkner's unprincipled principality, it is the proletarian Snopses who slither to power over the aristocratic Sartorises. In Tuxahatchie County the red-soil, rednecked goodness of the hill farms is posed against the black-soil, black-souled wickedness of the valley. Indeed the valley, Fate Laird is forced to decide in the end, is "like a pretty woman loaded with syphilis...
...have heard one of the muddy-numbers mutter, "Sometimes I don't know why I play football," obviously thinking about the frustration of waiting for his coach to yell, "O.K., warm up." The writer could possibly have known that there is no glory in being a j.v. Maybe some slither along in the mud of the practice field in anticipation of a greater glory next year on the varsity, but the others know that they have little chance of becoming varsity players, let alone varsity stars . . . it just doesn't happen very often...
...back in fine voice and better shape. Best of all, Jerome Robbin has discovered a dancer, Carol Haney, who scores the biggest personal hit since Carol Channing extolled the virtues of precious stones. Miss Haney, after proving in the first act that she is no slouch in the slither-and-sling category, dresses like a man for a dance number, "Steam Heat." By dint of talent and personality, Miss Haney overcomes the understandable audience disappointment at this deception and turns the routine into the evening's highpoint. She also sings the show's best novelty, "Hernando's Hideaway," a nonsensical...