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...Ambassador Hotel filled with well-wishers, and as the results turned his way, campaign workers began "laughing and dancing and hugging one another," recalled his aide, former pro-football player Roosevelt Grier. Around midnight Kennedy went downstairs and delivered a rousing speech to 1,800 supporters in the ballroom. He then exited through the hotel's pantry, where at 12:16 a.m., a slight, dark-haired Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan pulled out a .22 cal. revolver, fired eight shots and fatally wounded the candidate. For a stricken America, it revived memories of the killings of Kennedy's brother John...
...radiant egotism. As any actor will tell you: "It's not that I'm criminally self-absorbed. I just pretend to be - for the little people out there in the dark." And if you were to say that having Oscar as usual is a bit like dancing in the ballroom of the Titanic, Hollywood would reply, "You give us a $2.2 billion worldwide gross and 11 Oscars, and we'll fox-trot till the cold wet dawn...
Between 1775 and 1776, American troops besieged Boston, eventually wrenching control from the British. Since then, our fair city has sat squarely in American hands. But when seminal punk band Dropkick Murphys invade the Avalon Ballroom for a series of four sold-out St. Patrick’s Day shows this weekend, Boston will have a new proprietor: the Irish...
...this show is not only to sing, but to dance as well, particularly during the show’s two balls. Perhaps because of the small stage, the choreography and execution of the dances is unpolished at times. There is a prolonged dance set in a St. Petersburg ballroom where the chorus takes on a robotic pose with angled arms and mechanical steps. In the context of the rest of the opera, this choreography makes little sense and looks slightly ridiculous...
...shiny ballroom that is Lowell, you also get turned down. They, at least, have a good excuse: Lowell is putting up Eugene Onegin, a Russian opera, in the dining hall and they’ve lost a lot of seating to the stage. (Besides, they never seem to have any food in Lowell anyway...