Word: macarena
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...trip to New York and Boston. After leaving a Broadway matinee, I walked a few blocks through Times Square when I went to reach for my wallet—but came up empty handed. I franticly checked all my pockets. Passers-by probably thought I was doing the Macarena as I patted every possible place I could have put it. I was in the middle of Manhattan, of all places, without any money, credit cards, or I.D. and with no way to board my plane home some days later. As this dawned on, me paranoia set in. I retraced...
Every decade or so, a fad comes out of nowhere and sweeps the world. It helps if it's inane: Frisbees and hula hoops (the '50s), polyester pant suits ('70s), the Macarena ('90s). Then the fever subsides and disappears, leaving parents to explain to their kids what the commotion was all about. The usual lame response...
...Saini ’06 incorporated moves from her background in cheerleading and dancing to create a high energy piece set to ’90s hits like “Baby One More Time” and everyone’s all-time favorite, the “Macarena.” Along with company pieces, there are a substantial number of dances choreographed and performed by solo artists. Shana J. Cloud ’06 (see profile on page 4) will present her independent study piece in which the dancers will be blindfolded, while Jessica M. Marglin...
...background in cheerleading and dance team to create a high energy piece set to 90’s hits like “Love Shack,” “Baby One More Time” and everyone’s all-time favorite, the “Macarena...
Solar radiation does funny things to the brain. It was in summers past that we fell for the Macarena as party starter, Regis Philbin as fashion icon and Howard Dean as Democratic front runner. If you need further proof that the ozone layer is thinning, look to the summer TV season of 2005, in which ABC got 15 million rapt Americans to watch Dancing with the Stars, the most proudly bizarre song-and-dance show since Pink Lady and Jeff...