Word: sambas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance is the Brazilian samba* notable alike for its breezy tempo and its lilting bounce. North Americans got their first inklings of samba rhythms three years ago, when seductive Carmen Miranda came up from Rio to shine on Broadway in The Streets of Paris, became really aware of it last spring, when she samba-sang and samba-danced in a cinema, That Night in Rio (TIME, March 24). Since then the samba has been winning more & more fans. By last week...
...Half of Arthur Murray's pupils in 46 cities were taking samba lessons...
...Band Leader Eddie Duchin was playing the samba in theater engagements; his samba disc Brazil was a steady seller. Duchin had spent last summer in Rio, had come back steamed up with the samba's possibilities...
...phonograph companies, noting that record buyers were growing more samba-conscious, had seven albums on the market. A year ago they had none...
From flowered arbors came soft laughter and then the swirl and rustle of silk and satin as Brazilian debutantes swayed to the congas and rumbas of a red-coated samba band. Mothers and grandmothers danced, too. Ruiz Guiñazú's strict Argentine social code frowns on such informality. But he watched. Occasionally he tapped his foot, and smiled...