Word: flamenco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flamenco Films. Plus Israeli and Yugoslavian folk dances on film. Friday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m., Joy of Movement Center, 536 Mass. Ave. near Central Square. Tickets...
...bench who used to bet with his late wife - "Whoever goes first loses." Norman Mailer crosses the Hud son as the city-nation of N.Y.C.'s first President while a jubilant citizen shouts, "We're recognized by Israel!" The evening's finest gig is a wild flamenco in honor of the native delicatessen: "Out-of-town baloneys/ Are made of horse and ponies." Beware of Boston, too, where "You don't order tonic/ Unless you want a high colonic." Grace under pressure is sometimes no more than a good laugh...
...their fault, and the set is not to blame, either. Cool and Spanish. Zack Brown's set is an Escher like lizard of staircases and platforms: it seems much larger than it is, more stylish than Escher, and perfectly balanced. Director Richard Edelman uses waiters, bystanders and a flamenco guitarist to keep things moving on stage, and he does it well, but the odds are stacked as relentlessly as the bullfighting metaphors...
...Democrats who so rarely have been invited into such sacred premises were offered scrambled or poached eggs, sausage or bacon or both, English muffins or toast. The elegant White House waiters passed those 800 Flamenco No. 1 cigars. All of that didn't prevent Albert and O'Neill from giving blunt assessments about the prospects for Nixon's legislative proposals, but they went back to Congress having been part of a dialogue, not schoolchildren summoned for another flipchart show by Haldeman and Ehrlichman...
...some sort have been prominent in most of his films. But nowhere except in Last Tango in Paris has the dance had such clear import. The tango at the end of the film is not just another Bertolucci dance -- it is a masterstroke. The tango, originally a spirited, emotional flamenco dance, is shown not just as the diluted ballroom style it is today, but as a lifeless, pitiful dance hearkening back to the thirties, suggesting that life has not come so far from world-wide depression as we might like to believe...