Word: boleros
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Side One swings around the Far East. Nippon Bashi, one of three songs representing Japan, exploits the Glee Club's ability to get louder very slowly and gradually, over a long period of time--a sort of basso "Bolero." The Club stops (musically) in Korea, China, The Philippines, and Thailand, but it sounds as if it has never escaped the office of G. Schirmers in New York. Only the Indian anthem by Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Khoro Bayu Boy Bege ("The Optimist Against Odds") breaks loose: a vigorous unison from start to stop suggests the musically muscular Soviet Army Chorus, with...
...girl in slacks is hardly worth a third look, but on the French Riviera last week, slacks were causing a sensation. Reason: the latest style, launched by Claire Vachon, the Riviera's high priestess of beachwear, is an outfit of very low-slung slacks combined with a bolero. The slacks are ankle-tight around the hips and finger-tight around the ankles. They start below the waistline, and thus have earned a special euphemism among English-speaking tourists: the BB look, not for Brigitte Bardot, but for belly button...
...from flirtatious rambles in the market place to formally styled initiation ceremonies. One episode, simply enacting the death of a man and a witch doctor's earnest attempts to save him, conveyed the feeling of real tragedy, accompanied by chanting as insistent and haunting as Ravel's Bolero...
...study a new dance. Their current specialty, researched in the Caribbean: the stiff-legged merengue, an old folk dance that some say got a new lease on life after Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo was injured in a car accident, could not limber up to the beguine or bolero...
...father and brother Rod as crew members, astounded the blue-water racers by skippering his 52-ft. yawl Dorade to victory in a transatlantic race to England. The experience helped him go on to design deep-keeled, fast cruising yawls with flashy racing lines, such as Baruna and Bolero, and the shallow-keeled, sturdy Finisterre, that came to dominate blue-water racing against schooners and ketches...