Word: cabareting
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...majority of Houses will probably have formal, informal, or cabaret dances on Saturday night of the weekend, although at least one House may schedule a hayride...
...sedulously avoids his wife, who has remarried in the meantime, and his grown-up daughter. He gets caught up with a whole series of characters who are more representative than real: a serious painter who stays alive by strumming a guitar in a sleazy cabaret, an ex-admiral who checks shipments at a soap factory, a black-marketeering student with a nose for yen and a yen for such un-Japanese customs as holding hands and kissing. Like identical beads, these characters are threaded on the same theme another Japanese novelist, Kikou Yamata, recently used in her spare and superior...
...other houses. "Some of the guys felt a little bad about it," said one of the dance committee chairman, "but we had the Yale Dance at the Commander Hotel and were able to have bar facilities over there." Dudley's dances are a good step beyond the wild Cabaret parties of several years ago that burned the now-disappearing stigma on the commuter. They are still more informal, and perhaps louder, but a change for the better is clear. "We're beginning to feel a little more confident," one committee member stated, "now that we can make money...
...Rome, Egypt's ex-King Farouk interrupted his leering and prancing long enough to roll into a fashionable nightclub, where he drew up a chair beside an old Manhattan cabaret songstress named Spivy, bellowed duets with her for an hour and topped off the act with a Swiss yodeling version of Don't Fence Me In. Spivy's impression of Farouk's yodeling: "Squeaking in a high falsetto...
...theater of change and conflict. Moreover, in sharp vignettes, Author Lewis shows that the crackle of change in Southeast Asia comes not only from firebrand nationalists and Red fanatics but also from the intellectual bubble gum that the East borrows from the West. At Luang Nakon's leading cabaret, the local version of the Radio City Rockettes wear drum-majorette boots, hussars' hats and nothing else. At the town's boxing matches, the style if not the wording of the billboards is familiar: "Famous, flashy and crashing kid possesses a resolute punch." When a jukebox with colored...