Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...country's Jurassic judicial system. By Deputy Fortuna's reckoning, 4,000,000 men and women living together illegally and their 1,000,000 children-one-tenth of the entire population-are "matrimonial outlaws." Among those who have had to resort to fancy foreign legal footwork to avoid being cast as bigami are Vittorio De Sica, who became a French citizen and got a French divorce to marry his second wife, and Carlo Ponti, who went the same route to wed Sophia Loren. Under the new law, Gina Lollobrigida can Italianize her 1968 Austrian divorce from Milko Skofic...
That leaves Danny Kaye with rather more than he can salvage. Kaye is not naturally funny but more of a stunt-man of humor who relies on glib footwork, a glibber tongue and a foxy aptitude for facial contortions. He has had to subdue these in Two By Two and concentrate on just being liked. He works long and arduously at it, and he is liked. And pitied. At show's end he is supposed to be 601 years old, and few in the opening-night audience felt appreciably younger...
Bruin forward Lay put Brown back in the game just before the half as he split the defense with his speed and footwork, Lay pulled Meyers to him and then passed to teammate Dick McEvoy for an easy goal...
Toward the middle of the second period, Phil Kydes stole the ball at midfield and fed Pete Bogovich, who quickly passed to Thomas. Thomas pulled the defense to him and then hit Sol Gomez on the right wing. Gomez beat two fullbacks with his fancy footwork and put a five-yard shot past goalie Alex Spector...
Inside halfback Ekkama used traps, short passes, and fancy footwork to dominate the midfield play. In a game characterized by long disorganized passing, Ekkama's precision play frequently brought applause from the stands...