Word: rumbas
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Although the Cornell and Harvard men's hockey teams have been invited for a 7:30 p.m. rumba, scratch Cornell's Duanne Moeser, and Harvard's Chris Biotti and Allen Bourbeau from the guest list...
...Russians world opinion to placate. Only in an Administration which pushes for high-level meeting in its fourth year, which signs no arms-control agreement, and which deep-sixes no arms-control agreements, and which deep-sixes any movement towards arms control, can the Gromyko-Reagan rumba be deemed of significance...
...seat-belt situ. Almost since takeoff from Cologne on Lufthansa's flight 408 to New York, she has been rotating her midsection, rolling her eyes shimmying her shoulders and flexing her thighs. And she is not the only one-just about everyone aboard is doing this "sitdown rumba." Is this a traveling company of A Chorus Line? In-flight ecdysiast transcendentalists...
...coming when rock bands will find themselves playing opposite a Latin orchestra." Although it has been developing for 30 years, salsa is a new musical adventure for most Latinos as well as for Americans. Its roots extend back to Cuban dance music of previous decades like the rumba. After 1961, when the U.S. suspended relations with Cuba, emigrant Latin musicians and mainland-born Puerto Ricans gradually fused their own style with elements of American rock, soul and especially jazz. The result was salsa's singing dances. They are a combination of pungent vocal melodies challenged by complex instrumental counterrhythms...
...closing gap came from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a social-dance class that began during the semester break attracted 109 nostalgic students instead of the expected 20 to 30, all eager to learn not the latest rock steps but the dances their parents once did: the rumba, jitterbug, foxtrot, waltz, tango, Charleston, even the polka. Says Instructor Harry Brauser: "These dances serve as a contact point between generations. Kids are now interested in what their parents experienced; everything their parents did is no longer looked down upon...