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...since the '50s, when Xavier Cugat dished out some slicked-up, watered-down rhythms that had made their way north from the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Legend has it that the merengue was inspired by a Dominican general who trailed a disabled leg behind him as he navigated a ballroom. Another myth says the dance originated with slaves brought from Africa to work the fields. The slaves, in chains, would move off the ships by lifting one leg and dragging the other...
...standing with a drink in your hand and boredom on the brain in a ballroom. A man with large ears comes up to you, shakes your hand, and in a British accent introduces himself as Charles, Prince of Wales...
...Lauren, this year has provided one success after another. Aside from all the store openings, his fall women's collection was a smash hit. At the clothing's initial showing in the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Pierre Hotel, Lauren watched through a peephole backstage and his tawny-haired wife sat in the front row, wearing an ornately crested Polo blazer, as models taxied along the runway to the strains of Sinatra's The Lady Is a Tramp. The critical favorite of the day: a navy blue cashmere evening dress ($998) that was far more clingy, streamlined and sensuous than...
...model for Ba-Ba-Reeba! and for many other U.S. outposts is the Ballroom, New York City's best tapas tavern and one of the first in the country. The chef and co-owner, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, is a virtuoso of the meal-in- miniature. To the standard array of morsels, he adds innovations such as chicken in curry, headcheese in a satiny pimiento puree, slivers of crackling crisp roast pig and seviche of scallops. Rojas-Lombardi has his three tapas cooks prepare 25 choices each day, and his menu also lists eight or ten conventional main courses, both Spanish...
When Gannett shareholders trooped into the Capital Hilton ballroom in Washington last week for the company's annual meeting, they expected a lively session. Only one day before, Gannett had agreed to buy Louisville's Pulitzer Prize-winning Courier-Journal and Times for about $300 million, outbidding both the Washington Post Co. and Chicago's Tribune Co. Within the past year, the Arlington, Va.-based media giant had acquired two other major newspaper companies that had come up for sale: the Detroit News and the Des Moines Register (total price: $917 million). "It's a little like winning the Triple...