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...Hopes Fade...
...classical Viennese chords of the waltz competition fade away, a new set of 20 dancers step onto the floor and begin moving in pairs to the 60's swing-favorite, "It's in His Kiss." According to judge Shawn Smith, the keys to this dance are timing and degree of enjoyment. Smith, an amateur dancer himself, stands at the edge of the dance floor and, holding his clipboard and detailed score-sheet, observes the motions of the couples, each pair labeled by letter...
Even if you do all this, the game will probably come down to the fourth quarter, a period when your charges have been known to fade...
Blame it on the decaying values of society or just blame it on Madonna. But it's your team and the fourth quarter fade is your problem. So here's what you do with the halftime speech. Can it Put on some music instead--and I mean Hammer, not Lawrence Welk. And if you really want to get the right juices flowing in these young men, make sure that every player has a complimentary copy of Madonna's Sex sitting in his locker room at halftime...
...CADILLACS NEVER DIE," OBSERVES the great trumpet player and immortal bopcat at the close of Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. "The finance company just fade 'em away." DIZZY GILLESPIE must never have had a brush with the collection agency: there is no fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump...