can-can

• “The shows would feature “cowgirls” who did rope tricks, “cowboys” who played the guitar and sang, “scouts” who had knife throwing acts, and saloon girls who danced the can-can lifting their skirts high for the bored dads in the audience.”

  Buffalo Bill! The thrill of my life to have invented you!

• “But the honours for all-round accomplishment go to Amy Freston, whose coquettish Valencienne is vibrantly sung, and who dashes off a breathtaking can-can routine that concludes with the splits.”

  The Guardian: The Merry Widow – review

• “Paris Hilton, who just celebrated her 30th birthday by pretending she was one of the can-can dancers in a Baz Luhrmann film, appeared last night on the "Late Show With David Letterman" and, after prompting from Mr. Letterman, shared her life plans.”

  The Washington Post: Video: Paris Hilton shares her life plans with David Letterman

• “If this rumour is true, I am proud because Aston Villa have been one of the big English clubs for several years," Tabanou has said, simultaneously performing a drunken celebrity can-can through the streets of Birmingham with Nigel Kennedy, Prince William and Lennie Godber from Porridge.”

  The Guardian: Football transfer rumours: Glen Johnson to Juventus?

• “He was the high-living dwarf painter, capturing the black stockinged legs of can-can dancers, young lovers, old roués, prostitutes, backstage secrets and lesbian clinches in posters and dynamic paintings.”

  The Guardian: This week's new exhibitions

• “The dancer, with her eyes shut and lips slightly parted, is in the posture we associate with the can-can—except that her legs are at an awkward, anatomically almost impossible, position to each other.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Artistry of Toulouse-Lautrec and His Dancing Muse Jane Avril

• “Arnold told me, Fifteen years ago when we first started, I'll never forget, the technology was kind of new and we had these nail tips at a show and little did we know that the designer told the models to grab their skirts and can-can on the runway.”

  The Huffington Post: Hilary Moss: Nailing It At Monique Lhuillier (PHOTOS)

• “And being a good-natured, likeable pacifist, my friend appeasably laughed at Ace and Gary's calisthenics in Ambiguously Gay sexual positions, and the Ambiguously Gay penis-shaped car ramming into a brick-wall opening and even during the Ambiguously Gay "can-can dancing" punch-outs of the bad guys.”

  The Huffington Post: Adrian Margaret Brune: Ambiguously Hurtful Humor

• “The odor of success hangs over this delightful can-can romp -- pun-filled fun for the whole family!”

  The Huffington Post: Charlie Fink: 3 For D.C. in NYC

• “You mean the can-can," she said, gently correcting him.”

  The Huffington Post: David Macaray: Double Agents

Show 10 more examples...