The first of act of "Back on Broadway" ends with Mr. Jackman embodying another, similar Rodgers and Hammerstein figure, singing the "Soliloquy" of Billy Bigelow, the burly carnival barker from "Carousel".
Every day the city was full of desperate acts of back-seat freedom.
We need to devise a process whereby serious action can be taken against egregious acts of back-scratching, waste and lack of rigour in governance.
"We'd already done the retroactive act of looking back for accountability's sake.
At times, the act of pushing back against him can seem like wasting your breath.
So we can speculate that this painting is an act of giving back to God just a bit of what this banker has snatched.
The Jets' high-wire act of getting back into the A.F.C. playoff picture started two weeks ago, when Rex Ryan pulled Mark Sanchez in the third quarter against Arizona.
But that is exactly why the simple act of going back to the text is the most radical thing that you could do now.
In practice, this means celebrating the act of looking back to find something innovative and original: using imaginative programming to explore vital connections between old and new.
For 10 years now, Mr. Assouline and his wife, Martine, have turned the act of looking back at stylish scenes into a lucrative kind of art form, with books on fashion legends, famed resorts and storied moments of design.
Ferruccio Ferragamo, president of the luxury goods company, was quoted in Italian media as saying the Uffizi donation was an act of "giving back" to Florence, the city where his father, Salvatore, set up a shoe shop in the late 1920s.
