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"ref": "1978 May 31, \"Movies\", in the St. Petersburg Independent, page 11-B",
"text": "\"Swing Time:\" Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers trip the light fantastic in this yarn about a dancer with a yen for gambling."
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"ref": "2005 June 1, Kevin Kittredge, “Royal Ballet”, in Roanoke Times, retrieved 2008-10-04",
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"word": "trip the light fantastic toe"
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