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...attain only in our more blissful daydreams. At his best, Kelly reminded us that, in reality, we are obliged to improvise our happiness with such rough materials as fall to hand." But don?t take Schickel?s word ? what do critics know? Listen to another director-choreographer, Bob Fosse: "He looked like a guy on your bowling team, only classier...
...muscular masculinity was a crucial component of his appeal, Kelly blew away the perfume of sissy-hood that clung to serious dance like a too-tight tutu. His last major choreographic statement was a 1958 "Omnibus" special called "Dancing: A Man?s Game," explicitly aligned dance with sport: Bob Cousy makes a few sassy dribbling moves; Mickey Mantle plays catch with our star. Kelly, the kid who aspired not to dance stardom but to play shortstop for the Pirates (and, considering their record in the 40s, they could have used him) brought out the manly athleticism of entrechats and pli?s...
...hope the person who arranged the interior decoration was color-blind, but those extraordinary combinations may actually have been considered cool in the early seventies. The walls have a base of faded orange felt over which sail bright red, yellow, green and black stripes. It is as if Bob Marley had fallen into a pool of his own vomit. In fact, it smelled rather like that, as well...
...Fascinated, I stuck around for songs by Bob Dylan and Alicia Keys, and with each song, grew more and more excited, my mind reeling. This is it, I thought to myself. I'm finally hip! What could possibly have happened to me, I mused, to spark such a sea change? Did I win some cosmic lottery of cool? Have I been particularly good since last year's Grammys...
Canadian Hockey Association President Bob Nicholson did his best to patch the discord created by the controversy with a message of unity...