Word: conga
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Through the afternoon, the demonstrators sang, played cards, and talked informally with Faculty members in the building. A few students played conga drums...
...Conga drums now resound from the common room of Bertram Hall every Tuesday and Thursday night when 30 Cliflies gather to dance-African with an Afro-American twist...
Afterwards, as the grey, 280-ft. yacht knifed back across the inky waters toward Manila, Marcos' comely wife Imelda, a former Miss Manila, led the guests in a conga line. At length, Mrs. Marcos approached the TIME group and announced, "Now, the entertainment." Once they realized what she had in mind, the American guests rose and serenaded their Filipino hosts with a spirited, if slightly off-key Auld Lang Syne...
ANDREW HILL, COMPULSION (Blue Note). Haitian-born Pianist Hill is magnificently obsessed with the complex rhythms and bold colors of African music. Aided by Nedi Quamar's African thumb piano (a handmade wooden box holding long metal prongs that are plucked), Renaud Simmons' conga and Joe Chamber's drums, he conjures up a thundering, lashing storm with sweeps across the keyboard -and then lets it fade into the silver pinging of random raindrops. Freddie Hubbard's trumpet has a cry for every change of mood...
...with care, Santana beat the Aussie 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 15-13 for Spain's lone victory of the matches -and set off a delirious demonstration by 400 banner-waving, wine-swigging Spanish fans, who broke through police lines and danced across the court in a conga line. Their hero was more subdued. "Today there was no pressure on me," he admitted. "I play better tennis that way." Loser Emerson announced that he intends to hang up his racket. "At 29, I've lost my enthusiasm," he said. "It's time for me to step...