Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show to the ball. At his Fete de Fevrier, a small social for 600 to raise funds for his Foundation of Modern Art, he arranged to have the U.S. premiere of the film souffle, Made in Paris, held right after dinner in the New York Hilton's Grand Ballroom. Over their coffee and tea, Salvador Dali and the rest of his friends settled back to watch Ann-Margret tumble in love with Louis Jourdan in the film, which was not such a ball after...
...effects of light. On his own, he designed "light ballets" like sweeping projections of tracer beams. "I want to demonstrate that light is a source of life which has to be continuously rediscovered, to show its expansion as a phenomenal event." His Fixed Star may recall a revolving ballroom chandelier, but his intention is to turn art inside out: his light rays reach out into the spectator's space rather than coax him into their framework...
...swinging parties in all five boroughs and a glittering inaugural ball in Manhattan. Mike Quill's strike fixed all that-everything was canceled except the ball-but it could not subdue the high spirit and fresh style that John Lindsay brought to a tired office. In the inaugural ballroom at the Americana Hotel, only floors away from strike negotiation headquarters, the mayor and his wife Mary acted as if they had not a care in the world, danced across the bandstand to the tune of Oh, Johnny as a crowd of 4,000 applauded...
...judges in London included such stalwarts of the realm as the Marchioness of Tavistock and former Cricketer Sir Learie Constantine, as well as experts from the colonies Broderick Crawford and Johnny Mathis. After they had observed all the forms parading across the red-carpeted stage of the Lyceum ballroom, they decided that once again, Miss United Kingdom was obviously Miss World. Regal (5 ft. 8 in., 37-24-37) Lesley Lang ley, 21, also obeyed the traditions by weeping prettily. "As there was a British winner last year," she gasped, "I did not think I should be chosen because there...
Died. Tony De Marco, 67, U.S. ballroom dancer in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, leader of the "Dancing De Marcos," who whirled his magnificently gowned partners around vaudeville and supper-club stages of the U.S. and Europe, thrilling audiences with his gliding grace and superbly timed leaps, in 1957 retired to Florida with Sally De Marco, his third wife and tenth partner; following a stroke; in West Palm Beach...