Word: boleros
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...theater is to be torn down, Impresario Dmitri Weismann (read Flo Ziegfeld) orders a first and last reunion of his celebrated personnel. All the familiar types attend: Phyllis, the leggy brunette (Alexis Smith) who married well; Sally, the third-from-the-left blonde (Dorothy Collins) who didn't. The bolero-dancing couple (Victor Griffin and Jayne Turner) who bought a Fred Astaire franchise ("Styles change; you never can tell"), the wisecracking queen bee (Yvonne De Carlo) with her hive of young drones; the feathery Continental (Justine Johnston) who remembers Franz Lehar dedicating a waltz to her (" 'Liebchen...
Chanel modified the shape of her suits with a bolero or cutoff blazer jacket, cropped and V-necked. Nina Ricci's Gerard Pipart kept his daytime clothes straight and simple, took a giant steppe to Russia with evening wear that featured fur Cossack hats, officers' coats, boyar pants (Russian-style knickers) and gypsy dresses. Louis Feraud concentrated less on shape than on fabrics. Guy Laroche seconded Pipart's Russian notions, and then some: to a background of music, slides, and Tartar dancing, his models turned out in tunics and knickers, babushkas and cummerbunds, capes rimmed with...
...absurd in any attempt to poularize high culture, but this evening transcended even the normal insipidity of such things. For the benefit of a television audience, the orchestra wore powder-blue Xavier Cugat uniforms, and played an archetypal program. Gems like the Nutcracker Suite, Peter and the Wolf, and Bolero were featured, along with the Pops's own arrangement of the score of Hair. Maybe it was the heat from the spotlights, maybe it was the lack of rehearsal, but somehow the program never got off the ground. The brass was sharp, the violins were too loud, and the popping...
...know Ravel's Bolero. It is difficult to get it wrong. The Pops did. Not in tempo, or interpretation, but the actual score itself. Players kept missing notes, First the French horns came in wrong, then the English horn massacred an arpeggio, and soon the entire performance was beyond redemption...
...Nixons, joined by David and Julie Eisenhower, tootled out to the helipad in one of the fringed-top presidential golf carts. As Nixons and Johnsons shook hands all around, Francisco Ruano, resplendent in rich brown deerskin bolero and blue-and-silver sombrero, led his Guadalajara Boys mariachi of eight Mexican-American musicians in a fair approximation of Happy Birthday. The band was Nixon's own idea; he discovered it at El Adobe, a favorite restaurant in nearby San Juan Capistrano, and pronounced their sound "beautiful." After The Yellow Rose of Texas, Nixon exclaimed: "Now let's get that...