Anvil in a Lace Bootie

Eric’s nap boulder was also used as a picnic table.

Eric Campbell, between takes on a Chaplin movie set, would: a. dance on his toes and pirouette. b. eat a wheelbarrow full of potato salad. c. bask and nap on his own special giant boulder. d. make haggis.

The lifeless chipmunk sat there, lifeless. A jaunty jay hopped by, paused, said, ‘What’s your story, captain? Usually you’re zooming around here like so much lightning.’ The chipmunk barely sighed, muttered, ‘What’s the use?’ ‘I know what you need,’ said the jay. ‘HAWK!’ The chipmunk flashed across the clearing and dove down a tunnel. The […]

WINDED, BUT NOT GONE

1. ‘Show Mr. Peabody into the library, please,’ repeated the insane woman clad in rags time and time again. 2. He suffers, I fear, from a severe case of permanent adolescence. 3. She was so full of herself that she overflowed onto others.

The skill and passion combined in Gandhi’s tango were unsurpassed.

When Gandhi opened his dance studio in Tempe, Arizona, : a. people were taken aback. b. the waiting list to join was lengthy. c. although the usual dances were taught, Gandhi specialized in the tango. d. some thought he’d gone dhoti and needed a rest.

a pleasure gone too far i.e. consumption of an entire pie at one sitting.

On a grubby roof in Los Angeles circa 1930, 9 chorus girl roommates take turns pounding each other impishly to wind down from a long sweaty day at the studio spent fending off various wise guy lotharios.