Word: legwork
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Moore does his own legwork too. He pestered K Mart until the retailer stopped selling ammunition, some of which had ended up in the bodies of Columbine students. He unearthed a phone call to Littleton police on the morning of the shootings from the father of Eric Harris, one of the killers, anguished that his son might be involved. And there is the film's clip of a TV reporter on the Columbine crime scene announcing that "Harris' diary also detailed ideas about hijacking an airplane and crashing into New York City...
...years, they have provided India with most of its hit songs (in effect, the movie industry is the music industry). And not just songs--immense production numbers. Dozens of chorus boys in leather and houris in saris frolic while the stars risk dislocating their shoulders and display '60s-style legwork not seen in the West since the Peppermint Lounge closed. The stars dance, but they don't sing. That's the job of "playback singers," unseen onscreen but famous on CDs. One playback diva, Lata Mangeshkar, has recorded some 50,000 songs in a 60-year career. (Sinatra, you slouch...
...years, they have provided India with most of its hit songs (in effect, the movie industry is the music industry). And not just songs?immense production numbers. Dozens of chorus boys in leather and houris in saris frolic while the stars risk dislocating their shoulders and display '60s-style legwork not seen in the West since the Peppermint Lounge closed. The stars dance, but they don't sing. That's the job of "playback singers," unseen onscreen but famous on CDs. One playback diva, Lata Mangeshkar, has recorded some 50,000 songs in a 60-year career. (Sinatra, you slouch...
...Anyone with eyes can tell why Astaire was considered the great American dancer. He was the first with the most - the pioneer who was also the supreme refiner. Tap dancing had traditionally been all legwork, with the upper body stationary (think Gene Kelly). Astaire, as his teacher Ned Wayburn noted, "was the first American tap dancer to consciously employ the full resources of his arms, hands and torso for visual ornamentation." Then he integrated ballet and ballroom dance into his style. He wasn't grounded, in the old tap fashion; he floated, soared like Nijinsky. The mood of his dances...
...meantime, it will be this committee that will study the University’s options and coordinate the necessary legwork. The committee will help to compile the raw data that will inform an ultimate recommendation to Summers and the Corporation...