She described her work as "the literary equivalent of a hyperactive, ginger-haired tap-dancing 10-year-old".

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Happy Feet, named after the popular animated film about a tap-dancing penguin chick, has been fitted with a tracking device so the zoo can monitor his progress.

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People have an idea of what "Broadway" means, and it often comes with the expectations of tap-dancing show girls or glitzy sets with actors swinging through the orchestra.

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He has got a point: other cities have their moments, but only Marrakesh puts on a show that makes tap-dancing mice in a castle seem like an opening act.

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The film begins shakily, but when Broderick steps up for his first big number the sets open up, some tap-dancing beauties are brought out, and the film begins to fly.

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Mr. TOM AMMIANO (San Francisco Board of Supervisors): The feds and the state are doing a lot of tap-dancing around this issue, but they're not coming up with anything that really addresses the reality of who our neighbors are, who we depend on for services, and I think this is the least we could do.

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"I'll always be dancing -- tap dancing -- always, " he says.

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He fights the bad guys by flying through the air and engaging them in a rhythmic version of kung fu that has the clickety-clack excitement of tap dancing.

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After all, there is nothing earnest about a "talking" bus from which you are encouraged to wave at passersby or to cheer for that gentleman in a navy-blue suit who just started tap dancing down 42nd Street.

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Klein began dancing in fifth grade, when his mother signed him up for hip-hop and tap classes on Long Island without warning him.

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