Word: flamenco
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...baring singer- dancers: give it up. You are pale imitations. CHARO is back! And better than ever, especially now that stretch fabrics have been mainstreamed. The campy sensation of '70s and early '80s TV is both star and co-producer of Bravo, her own show in Las Vegas, featuring flamenco, merengue, salsa and plenty of clean "cuchi-cuchi" for the entire family. Asked if she was sick of her signature phrase, she burbled, "Are you kidding? Cuchi-cuchi has shown me the way to the bank!" On her show-biz hiatus she moved with her Swedish husband to Hawaii...
...from the Wright brothers' biplane to Nancy Reagan's silk-satin Inaugural gown--nine research centers and the National Zoo. Unlike his predecessors, however, Small is neither a scientist nor an academic. He spent 27 years at Citibank, and his last job was COO of Fannie Mae. He plays flamenco guitar and owns a world-class collection of Amazonian art, but he got the job because he knows how to raise money and crunch numbers. His mission was to put the world's largest museum complex on a sound financial footing...
...shows no interest in politics and instead lends her energy to charity work in Calcutta. Professionally, she has toiled in Spain, Italy, France as well as the U.S., explaining casually in flamenco-flavored English that "I like to work in different languages." When traveling, she picks up her Spanish newspapers on the Web. She's highly paid but not devoted to wealth; this summer she'll begin a five-month hiatus when she'll rollerblade and study photography. In short, a typical 20-something European. Responding to questions from a Time poll measuring the mood of these peripatetic adventurers...
...amazing about all this was the audience: they were all elderly Chinese couples on day trips from Yunnan province. About 10,000 Chinese tourists visit Mongla every day?among them, these grandmothers with blue-rinsed hair who sat unflinchingly as a trannie waltzed on in a see-through flamenco dress...
DIED. JOSE GRECO, 82, Italian-born Brooklyn-raised dancer who popularized Spanish dance--especially the showy, cape-snapping flamenco--for worldwide audiences in the 1950s and '60s; in Lancaster, Pa. A popular guest on such shows as Ed Sullivan, Greco drew 19,000 fans to a New York City stadium...