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...There were some actual stars in the ballroom - O.K., so there was Ed Begley Jr. and a bunch of guys who looked like Kenny Rogers. An alarmingly large number of scientists from Austria received awards. Apparently the people who gave the world Mozart and World War I are really good at making wireless camera lens controls. We tried to pin them down as part of some kind of vast, Austro-techie conspiracy, but, like the rest of the contented crowd at this Oscars, the Austrians were too friendly to root against...
...Moving around the exhibit hall, my picture is snapped with a cell phone. Suddenly, I appear in the middle of a 15th century Venetian ballroom scene on a computer, with a mask over my image. Valentina, an artificial intelligence hostess, greets me and invites me to Venice Chronicles' party. An actor working from the website's office directs the fantasy by giving orders, moving our images and forcing us to make conversation with each other...
...here's my modest proposal for holiday reform. Forget the PlayStations, the Barbie-mobiles, the catalogs and camp-outs in Wal-Mart parking lots. Give, if you will, to the needy, and let the pine trees live. Instead, rent the local V.F.W. hall or a hotel ballroom, deck it with boughs of holly, and invite the entire town for a vast blowout. O.K., it won't bring world peace. But if we have this primordial capacity for collective...
...there was not a preliminary for it, so you just showed up and were competing for the state title, which is really sketchy, but I didn’t know any better….They had a 12-year-old girl who was wearing a leotard with a ballroom gown on top. And she started singing “If You Wish Upon a Star.” And 30 seconds into it she ripped off the skirt and was wearing just the leotard and doing this sexy dance and it was so weird because she was only...
...distract viewers from the dance than to complement the dancers’ movements. This was followed by “Sway,” a charged Latin style dance self-choreographed by Filip Ilievski, a graduate student at MIT, and Jennifer M. Markham ’07 of Harvard Ballroom. Ilievski and Markham certainly worked the stage, pulling off a riveting and obviously emotional performance. The two later returned for “Tell Me Why,” the second-to-last dance of the night. It was unclear why, unlike Bhangra which also performed two pieces, they appeared...