Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following the race, Klohnen said, "It's hard to go out fast when your top runners aren't competing--we weren't that confident...
Sweet deliverance! Finally a dance anyone can do -- a fast dance, a hot dance -- without looking like a candidate for a physical-rehabilitation class. A little flame and no shame. Slick stepping and sexy navigating, with no bruised knees. And no characters on the floor making jokes about the rhythmic capabilities of most native North Americans. "It's a very simple dance, not complicated," says Gloria Senor, who, with her husband, runs a dance band in Miami. "It's a two-step." It's the merengue. It's bliss...
Merengue technique involves no free-form violence, like slam dancing, and no shin-splinting fanciness, as in the mambo. It is less taxing than the tango, which caught on anew with the Broadway success of Tango Argentino, a show that spawned a fast-stepping tour and any number of gift certificates for dancing lessons. "Merengue's not a real complicated step pattern," says Lynne Frazier of the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Burlingame, Calif. "You're not fighting to keep up with your feet...
...wider audience. "The great thing about Americans is that if you show them how to do a dance, they'll get up and do it," says Milly Quezada, one of the lead singers in Los Vecinos. "But a lot of them think merengue is too loud and too fast. Once we soften the brass a little, add synthesizers and make the music more American, we'll get them." All right, America: hips together...
...fasters hold on to their hope and seem determined to continue until they die or sink into comas. They recognize that the fast may fail, is failing. But they say it is worth it if their fast or even their deaths could bring a change in the public or the policy of our country...