Word: rumbaing
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...group was instructed in the foxtrot, the rumba and the swing. The dances were chosen to represent three different styles of ballroom dancing. The foxtrot is one of the five standard dances, the rumba is one of the five Latin dances and the swing is a social dance not performed in competition...
Cesar Castillo, newly arrived from Cuba to make his fortune as a bandleader in New York City's thriving Latino music scene, has a prayer for success: "In the name of the mambo and the rumba and the cha-cha-cha." Arne Glimcher, director of the exuberant new movie The Mambo Kings, may have a prayer of his own: In the name of the Cubans and the moguls and the public's whim...
...Band. The dancers move to the beat like a snake to the charmer's call: the hotter the tune, the cooler the step as the men expertly guide the women through the twists and curves of the mambo, the cha- cha-cha, the merengue and the rumba...
Along about sundown, the cocktail shakers begin their rumba-like rhythm. Knots of friends and neighbors, English speakers all, gather to gossip or reminisce. Then someone will raise a glass to their common good fortune. After all, not everyone can live in paradise, and not everyone wants...
...most of the big ways, the approach of the century mark has left him remarkably unaffected. True, he uses a hearing aid and walks with a cane, and a bad leg has forced him to give up dancing the rumba. But it is also true that he still golfs at his winter home in Miami Beach, swims at his summer home in New York's Catskill Mountains and, most important, has unquenchable energy and enthusiasm for his first love: the theater...