Mr. Retter told the kids that he was teaching adult tap dance in LA when his big break came.

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It would be years before I came to realize the Pill had other functions besides paying for my tap dance classes.

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He earned money by "hoofing, " a form of tap dance.

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Hill began tap dancing at age 3, and while still in grade school, he starred in the title role of the Tony-Award winning Broadway show, "The Tap Dance Kid, " during its national tour.

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The movie has me thinking about the constant tap dance that infectious disease experts must do to get attention for their field scaring the public one moment, calming it the next because of the gigantic market failure in our health care system that keeps us from constantly preparing for an infectious disease outbreak.

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He might as well ask a camel to tap-dance on its hind legs.

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The ugliest of these pigeonholes suggests a comparative advantage, anyway: to be thought to tap-dance well implies that you can, at least, do that.

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The two men who wrote this book probably had the best intentions, but the topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.

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You hear the creak of caskets opening, the tap of tiny feet as cherubs dance excitedly, and the clanking of cast-iron doors as angels go about their business on narrow lanes lined with weeping widows.

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And the whole competitive dance is really being focused on the services that hardware users tap into.

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