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I refer to the tap-dancing routine performed by dashing George Valentin and the divine Peppy Miller.
Evening Standard - Home Richard Godwin 2012
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I refer to the tap-dancing routine performed by dashing George Valentin and the divine Peppy Miller.
Evening Standard - Home Richard Godwin 2012
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As she wandered to and fro on the platform of the headless statues, taking in the sights, her shoes clicked rhythmically against the stone, almost like she was tap-dancing.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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If you can ignore the overload of kooky – easier if you don't watch the video – then the song is a complete joy, like Bat For Lashes after a few drinks, all tap-dancing percussion and an infectious dose of loveliness.
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In the same way that no one had ever heard of a tap-dancing penguin in the 2006 movie, no one in Rosemead had ever heard of a Mexican b-boy.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Zadie Smith discusses her research for White Teeth and how writing eventually won out against her first love, tap-dancing!
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As she wandered to and fro on the platform of the headless statues, taking in the sights, her shoes clicked rhythmically against the stone, almost like she was tap-dancing.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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Are we talking cuts in tap-dancing lessons here, or somewhat cooler bedrooms, or actual danger of starvation?
Women should stop whingeing about the coalition cuts Catherine Bennett 2010
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I follow her lead but am more interested in things we see and hear by chance—the ancient washboard player with the scar across his cheek, the tap-dancing boys at the corner of Bourbon and Toulouse, the zydeco accordion I hear wafting down an alleyway.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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It was a beautiful bang of an evening with swishy chorus girls covering luminous curvy skin with a parade of splendid costumes, a hilarious magician, tap-dancing black men in top hats and tails, a sultry French singer, Trois Dandy Chanteurs, and a silent-era black-and-white movie short, not to mention the burlesque strip teasers who looked as if they'd stepped out of the 1930s with its glamorous fizz.
Beth Arnold: Letter from Paris: Josephine Baker Back in Paris (This Time as a Man) Beth Arnold 2010
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