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This is not to say, however, that the art lacks intricacies: consider the names of the steps-taps, triple wings, toe tips, pendulum wings, cramp rolls, heel drops, heel digs, nerve taps, hops, jumps, heel cramps and flash finishes. Even that formidable array, however, has failed to dampen the enthusiasm of housewives who want to lose weight, businessmen who seek exercise and kids who revel in the chance to make shattering amounts of noise without risking a reprimand...
...sheriff's deputies were digging at the four-foot level when they unearthed a human toe; soon they had dug up the whole body. Then last week a farm hand working on a nearby ranch spotted a suspicious-looking mound. The sheriff's men went back to work and quickly came up with a second corpse. That touched off a thorough search of the orchard country around Yuba City, Calif., a normally placid town (pop. 13,986) on the Feather River 45 miles north of Sacramento. Using shovels and finally a tractor with a scoop, the deputies turned...
...under contract to drive these cars in endurance races. Last year he campaigned a Lola in the Can Am series, but the car was badly damaged in a crash during practice for the first race. In this accident Gregg suffered the only serious injuries of his career, a dislocated toe and a cracked shoulder. The car was not repaired until near the end of the season, and Peter has since given up Can Am racing...
...fables are done in mime, song and dance, plus direct asides to the audience. The performers are all toe, tongue, and letter-perfect. The company can boast of one of the standout contemporary clowns, Paul Sand. While he cannot reproduce the menagerie of animal sounds in this show that he does in Story Theatre, he is vastly amusing as a pixilated Mercury and equally funny as Phaeton, the cocky offspring of Phoebus (Apollo) who finds that he cannot actually control the horses that draw the chariot...
...French all-star team met Brazil's flashy Santos team, starring Pelé, the game's greatest player. Brigitte was coaxed into sprinting across the field, clad patriotically in blue sweater, red boots and tight white hot pants, to kick off the first ball. Her inspirational toe power prevailed. The French booters held the powerful Brazilians to a scoreless...