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Do I look like a homosexual?
— Howard Brackett
A small mustard-yellow velvet armchair with a pair of dancing shoes tucked beneath it on a grey background.
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Men do not dance. They work, they drink, they have bad backs, they don't dance!
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Our interpretation.

The speaker emphatically insists that men only work, drink and nurse sore backs, and never dance, stating a stereotype with comic force.

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An anonymous jointed wooden dancer extends its arms and lifts one knee, balanced on a brass central pivot above a shallow circular wooden stage inset with a brass ring on pale grey and lilac ground.
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Think about John Wayne, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold doesn't dance, he can hardly walk!
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Our interpretation.

The speaker invokes action stars, then exaggerates Arnold’s difficulty dancing by saying he can hardly walk. It is a pointed performance joke rather than an established account of the actor’s mobility.

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