Symbols and Tropes
Clothes
Fall into the Baby GapIs it the clothes that make the Baby or the Baby that makes the clothes? When the Houseman family arrives at Kellerman's, it's Lisa who cares about clothes, not Baby. But as B...
The Lift
Love Lifts Us Up Until this creepy thing from Ally McBeal came along, when people thought of dancing baby, they thought of dancing Baby. In particular, they thought of the film's climactic lif...
Body Language
Make Your Body TalkIt goes without saying that dancing is all about expressing yourself without words. As dancers, Baby and Johnny speak volumes to one another without opening their mouths. If you...
"Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner"
CorneredEven if you're never seen Dirty Dancing, you know this line:JOHNNY: "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."His declaration conjures up the image of a naughty child being put in the corner to t...