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...singing and-of all things-hoofing with Comedienne Carol Burnett. The pair joined forces last week for a TV show titled Sills and Burnett at the Met, a CBS special scheduled for next fall. The program features a blues and opera duet by the entertainers-and a demanding tap-dancing finale to be filmed at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House. "I had my first tap lessons when I was five," explained Sills, now 46. "They were 50? an hour, and I learned four steps. We haven't used any of them...
...tiny church basement, the two men created the Dance Theater of Harlem, the nation's first major black ballet company. Two hundred pupils arrived the first day; within a year enrollment had swelled to 800. Some of the kids had attended jazz and tap classes, but hardly any had ever seen a toe shoe. Today D.T.H. is an internationally known company with year-round employment for 27 dancers, a school with a student body of 1,300 and a home of its own in Harlem. "We broke all the rules," Mitchell says proudly, "because...
...open a new mine requires heavy capital expenses-on average, $35 in investment for each ton of annual capacity-that can be recouped only over many years. Says John Paul, a vice president of AMAX: "Coal mines are not water spigots. You don't just open a tap and turn them on." To justify the expense, coal men need a guaranteed market-and for that potential buyers have to have some assurance that the fuel can be burned in compliance with clean-air laws...
...Crimson continued to carry the play from the outset of the second half, as Kathy Fulton grabbed the tap and drove in a quick two, to re-establish the first half flow. Radcliffe built the lead up to 26 points before play began to get sloppy and the cagers' tenacious woman to woman defense began to slack...
Nesson himself did a good deal of the early research in the case, he said, "tracking the tap through the phone company and FBI hierarchy...