Word: mambo
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...Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, reclines like Venus on her couch. Calatrava's Olympic Stadium in Athens, seen by billions on television during last summer's Games, is a voluptuous, low-slung bowl. But in recent years, even these architects have been moving into the vertical mode, taking their mambo wiggles and thunderbolts with them. The square-shouldered glass-and-steel boxes of Modernism are giving way to silhouettes that once seemed inconceivable but are coming soon to a skyline near...
...Clark meets a parade of characters—including Bobbie (Lisa Ann Walter), the loud, obnoxious dance partner whom no one seems to want, and Link Peterson (Stanley Tucci), a co-worker of Clark’s who secretly dons sequins and a shaggy wig to become a frenetic mambo dancer. As Mr. Clark and his two-stepping entourage spend their evenings preparing for an amateur competition, his wife suspects that he might be having an affair and hires a private detective (Richard Jenkins) to track him down...
Millennium Mambo...
...built a $2 billion-a-year tourism industry that accounts for 41% of the country's hard-currency reserves. The annual tally of visitors has quintupled in the past decade, to 1.9 million. The island, roughly the size of Florida, has 11 international airports. With its appeal to mambo-era nostalgia and its pristine scuba-diving sites, Cuba was voted the best destination in the Caribbean by readers of Travel & Leisure magazine this year. Castro's dictatorship isn't exactly the stuff of tourist brochures, but the torrid cold war history shared by Cuba and the U.S. may be part...
DIED. RUBEN GONZALEZ, 84, Cuban pianist who rose to international fame as a member of the Buena Vista Social Club band; of respiratory and kidney failure; in Havana. With a gutsy and playful musical style, he was a pioneer of the mambo and the cha-cha. But it wasn't until 1996, at age 77, after his only piano had been destroyed by woodworms, that he was invited to join a multi-generational group of Cuban musicians, whose Buena Vista Social Club album won a Grammy, sold some 8 million copies and was the subject of an Oscar-nominated film...