Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...must approve the new recognition won by black artists. But as artists, they dislike the white man's current celebration of them merely because they are black. As one artist put it: "The black artist is a man, baby, not some kind of plastic superman you can make tap dance to Whitey's tune." Said another scornfully: "If they want black art, just take a canvas, paint it black, call it Nigger Number One, and they...
...program originated at BBC Television's Second Network. "The very simple thought I started from," said BBC-TV Director of Programs David Attenborough, "was to get on the screen the loveliest things created by European man in the past thousand years. The key decision was to tap Kenneth Clark as guide and commentator. It happened almost by accident, as Clark tells it. "They wanted advice about a series-perhaps on the history of art-and took me to lunch. By accident, the word civilization was mentioned. I experienced what Godfearing people of an earlier age used to describe...
Referring to restrictions on the admissibility of wince-tap evidence, Kirk said, "I would like to have all the powers of electronics at my disposal. I think it's time we started fighting crime with something other than a quill...
...military string ensemble pumped out the dansant tunes in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace as Master Farceur Noel Coward, 70, was dubbed a knight of the realm. In a simple, almost offhand ceremony, the entertainer knelt on a small stool and took a sword tap on each shoulder ("very lightly, thank goodness," he said later) from Queen Elizabeth II, who wore street clothes. "The Queen was absolutely charming," Coward told newsmen. "She always is. I've known her since she was a little girl." Then Sir Noel strolled off with a lady on each arm, wearing a rakishly tilted...
Hardly had the fighting ended in Biafra when the world's oilmen hustled in, checking damage to refineries, oil tanks and pipelines and preparing to tap wells that had been blocked off for 30 months. By early next month, drillers expect production to reach 780,000 bbl. a day. That would be enough to 1) supply all the needs of an industrial country the size of The Netherlands and the Union of South Africa combined, and 2) put Nigeria among the world's top ten oil producers...