Word: queen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another film about ballroom dancing, you say. You can see it already--Girl meets Boy, but Boy doesn't know she's alive. Boy loses partner. Suddenly Girl lets down her hair and transforms into Miss Latin Dance Queen. Boy falls in love with Girl, and voila--end of story. Not so here. To start with, Girl already knows how to dance, and Boy (and no, ladies, don't get your hopes up, he's not Chayanne) is going through a mid-life crisis. What kind of a movie is this, anyway...
...QUEEN OF THE MIST: THE FORGOTTEN HEROINE OF NIAGARA...
...impossible: merely the forgotten truth. Poet Joan Murray, in her epic poem Queen of the Mist, details the sad life and short fame of Annie Taylor, an elderly and utterly destitute school teacher living at the turn of the century who devised and executed what seemed the perfect plan for money and fame. After building with her thin hands a barrel to enclose her body like a womb and shelter her from her fall over the raging ledge of water, Annie Taylor subsequently became the first person in history to propel herself down the length of Niagara Falls...
...language never rivals the story in The Queen of the Mist; rather, the spare imagery Murray painstakingly inserts allows the heartbreaking story to tell itself without unnecessary flourishes. Images of birth, death and rebirth permeate the poem's language, providing the strongest continual layer of metaphor within the poem. The barrel, Annie's self-made womb, becomes in the end Annie's self-made tomb as Annie watches herself disintegrate within the short and petty memory of history. Eventually she is even called an imposter when the idealistic collective imagination consumes memory and literally recreates "Annie Taylor" into a blonde...
...become quite a thrill for us. But, they barely glance at our IDs before ushering us in. There is a $5 cover charge. A cover? For a bar? We decide this place is a total scam. However, we make our entrance, to the sounds of ABBA's "Dancing Queen...