Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kansas City hotel, a firm renting an entire upper floor threatens to break its lease when a tap class for 400 kids begins in the ballroom above. Skimpy rayon blouses and clunky shoes are all part of the fun. Tap dancing, after decades in the wings, is back on stage for professional dancers, amateurs, weight losers and an increasing number of people who simply like to dance...
...Associated Dance Teachers of California, says that professional entertainers, who are being called on increasingly for tap routines, helped start the revival. "Many young dancers these days are finding out that they just have to have tap." Keeping in step with the times, the 100-odd Fred Astaire ballroom-dancing schools across the country are for the first time offering tap lessons. In New York, reports George Connolly, of the National Council of Dance Teacher Organizations, the rise in tap-lesson attendance has been "phenomenal...
After the Sheraton Plaza dance, after we had ushered the last of the celebrants onto his bus (where everyone was singing Harvard fight songs), and after we had scoured the ballroom for forgotten handbags and gloves (discovering mostly lost shoes instead), the head chauffeur hugged the executive secretary and then they both looked at all the rest of us and shook their heads warmly and sadly. It was like straight out of one of Chekhov's final curtains, all the faithful family retainers standing around chuckling knowingly over the foolishness of their masters...
Midway through the dance that was held the following night at the Sheraton Plaza, the classmates and their wives began drifting out of the main ballroom where some ragtime band was going into its 90th turn through "Hold That Tiger." Across the way, their college kids were having their dance and, before long, that was where it was, yes, at. For by Wednesday night, the crowd had really loosened up. Half the alumni daughters were dancing with porters they had picked up along the way. A good number of the wives were eyeing a few of the boys themselves. (After...
Then, behind a procession of aides and bodyguards, came Heath and Pompidou, walking in step into the gilt and crystal glitter of the ballroom. Pompidou signaled Heath to precede him into the room. The two men seated themselves in Louis XIV armchairs on a raised dais, with Heath at the President's right...