Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exports and all imports except for food and medicine, freeze Serbian assets held abroad and break all air links to the outside world. The key measure, though, is an embargo on oil, the lifeblood of both modern industry and mechanized armies, but it is far from certain that the tap will be turned off. Almost half of Serbia's fuel comes from Russia and China, which went along only reluctantly with the sanctions resolution. Some British diplomats are worried that oil may slip into Serbia from Romania, or from the Middle East via Greece, which has important trade routes through...
...phrase "black musical" usually means either a gospel rafter-rattler or a nightclub evening of raunch and funk, typically highlighted by frenzied tap dancers and some enormous female singer with a voice like a howitzer. There have been exceptions that accorded blacks roles of dignity and depth (the richest emotionally, Dreamgirls, ironically was crafted by whites). But the norm is jumping and jiving, as in the new Five Guys Named Moe and the amiable gumbo of jubilant New Orleans sounds The High Rollers...
...fails as dramaturgy, it succeeds much of the time as bouncy entertainment, thanks to four people. Mary Bond Davis is a first-rate upholstered mama. Tonya Pinkins is sultry, sharp-tongued and sweet-voiced as Morton's love interest. Savion Glover, 18, outdoes his own brilliant best in tap-dancing the role of the young Jelly. And as the mature Jelly, Gregory Hines vibrates with the kind of glorious triple-threat talent -- as singer, dancer and actor -- that Broadway used to revel in but hardly ever witnesses anymore...
...decision to tap Nathans culminates anextensive and secretive search spearheaded by12-person faculty and 12-person studentcommittees, and marks the first time students haveparticipated in a dean search...
...nonstop kicks, leaps and turns, the 27 dancers, sweating through their leotards, are beginning to drag. But Mark Morris, the precisionist putting them through these paces, is unmoved by their exhaustion. "A little dynamism would help," he drawls, drawing on the Dunhill cigarette he has been using to tap out the beat...