Word: flamencos
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...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...
...galvanic twitches, the hand reaching for the heart, the chainsmoking, the downing of quarts of coffee-all the Levantine habits went public. He became to mental illness what Segovia is to the guitar. In clinical detail, Oscar replayed his repertoire of classical and flamenco hypochondria, apostrophized his nervous collapses ("chaos in search of frenzy") and multiple devotions to paraldehyde, Dexedrine, Thorazine, Demerol, Benadryl and insulin. Before he disappeared into a series of sanatoriums, he turned out a catalogue of malice...
Chamber Music by Dik Visser. Selection of flamenco and classical guitar pieces. MIT Kresge Auditorium. 8:30. April 12. Free...
Petkevich said that he wanted to do well at this, his final world championship. Although obviously disappointed that he had not gained a medal, something he had never done in international competition, his free skating, his choreography in perfect harmony with the Spanish flamenco music accompaniment, brought a broad smile to his face with the posting of the judge's marks...
...vivid enough evocation of "police brutality," but it is also a Keystone copout. Why do the vaudevillian police suddenly attack the other dancers? Why does the Spanish lady's flamenco collapse into a laugh-creating parody of itself? The answer, of course, is that those actions titillate theatrically-for an instant. Ballet, an art of linear grace and movement, is even less a medium of pure intellect than painting or opera. But it is not made relevant by playing games with half-digested references to yesterday's headlines...