Word: kazachok
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...what really steals the scene is the scene: Israel, with its ethnic freshness and vitality. In Independence Day Hora, the company swirls up a cyclone in a hand-holding folk dance, then explodes in Kazachok-styled kicks and leaps. Here, and in a muscle-throbbing stomp set in the Negev, Choreographer Saddler rises above the dance-for-dance-sake motives of most musicals to salute the pioneer spirit. An artful change of pace from the robust to the exotic brings a Yemenite wedding ceremony, in which the color of spectacle-cloth-of-gold gowns, jeweled headdresses, a pinpricked panoply...
...seemed almost a certainty, beause relations between Russia and the West had entered a third postwar phase, The first was the period of phony collaboration. It was ushered in by the Potsdam conference where Harry Truman played a minuet on the piano while the Russians (politically) danced a hobnailed kazachok over Europe's face. After some two years of that, the Truman Doctrine ushered in the Cold War, a period of mobilization during which the West pulled back from direct contact with Russia, while organizing (under ERP) its joint defense...
There she remembers the huge Russian always willing to jump into a kazachok; the lovely, shy Florian doing her belly-dances; Henry, the manager, keeping the peace "by telling everyone in the room they were right"; or the little singer, Chiffon, crooning before an old piano "that drove the orchestra to desperation." And the beautiful-eyed Fernande, who "could make more noise by herself than a banquet...
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