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Okay, Yale beat us in football and our showing in the Beanpot wasn't, stellar. But at least one Harvard team is on top of things. Its members need strength, conditioning and a polished wood floor, but they prefer the foxtrot and the samba to layups and three pointers--the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballroom Dancing team...
Perhaps an inkling of the bizarre waters ahead comes from the titles of the movements in the Suites. Named like conventional dance movements, we have waltzes, polkas, a march and even a foxtrot. Yes, one could actually dance to this music. As with much of "classical jazz" composed until the latter half of the century--jazz authored by so-called classical composers--Shostakovich's suites leave no room for improvisation and are embarrassingly strict in time and rhythm...
...polished elegance of more traditional dances like the waltz, foxtrot and tango attract many budding young Freds and Gingers, Vu says...
...this evening's foxtrot lesson, many of the once-awkward students move with elegance and confidence, executing twirls and promenading with ease...
Like Oliver Stone, Dye is a decorated Viet Nam veteran. His was among the first units to splash ashore there in 1965. Over the next decade, he saw buddies die at such hot spots as Hue and Foxtrot Ridge, and he was wounded three times by rockets and mortar fire. "We fought a hell of a war," he declares, "and until now, Hollywood didn't give a damn about getting it right...