Word: ballroom
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...weeks they had practiced dance steps, shopped for formals, fretted about hairstyles and what on earth to say to their partners. Now the Big City band was pumping up the volume, and the whole ballroom was beginning to shake. Brandon Fitch, wearing a pinstripe suit and an ear-to-ear grin, shimmied with a high-stepping blond. Daphne Moss, sporting a floral dress and white corsage, delighted her dad by letting him cut in. The usually quiet Kevin Buchberger leaped onto the dance floor and flat-out boogied for the first time in his life, while Kevin Namkoong grabbed...
...founder of Ms. magazine Gloria Steinem spoke on the liberalism of older women before a crowd of 250 at the George Washington Ballroom at the Sheraton Commander Hotel yesterday...
...Hally tries to do his homework and Willie practices his steps for the upcoming ballroom dancing competition, the bulk of the dialogue takes the form of Sam and Hally's reminiscences...
...performance is at once unassuming and good-natured, strong and endearing, painful and tragic. Sam must communicate to the audience the pain of the play--that although in ballroom dancing "accidents don't happen," in the world "we are all bumping into each other. No one knows the steps and there is no music playing...
Since being gunned down in a Harlem ballroom 27 years ago, Malcolm X, once viewed as an alarming extremist by whites and many blacks as well, has evolved into an icon in the black community, revered by African Americans ranging from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the members of the raging rap group Public Enemy. Making a movie to satisfy all these constituencies would seem an impossible task. At various times since producer Marvin Worth sewed up the rights in 1968, novelists James Baldwin and David Bradley and playwrights David Mamet and Charles Fuller tried their hand at writing...