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...Traditional crafts, storytelling and painting are on show, as well as over 1,500 performers in the women's elegant southern buckskin dance and the men's more strenuous war dance. More than 20,000 Indians and tourists attend to watch elders conduct rites?in the understated yet powerful gourd dance, men pay tribute to the warrior spirit by shaking rattles and lifting their heels to a hypnotic drumbeat. "They're not just performing for the crowd, but conducting ancient rituals," says Connie Hart Yellowman, director of the Red Earth Festival. "It's a time to socialize for Native Americans...
...tour. The dancers want the whole world to love those crazy steps. "The tango is the star of the show," asserts Elvira Santa Mar�a, 56. "We've come to prevent it from dying." Judging from audiences' ecstatic reaction to those furious feet, it will have a long, if strenuous, life. --By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York
Playing any acoustic instrument in a large hall is strenuous. Violinists suffer from the unequal development of the right and left side, and a lot of cellists end up with back problems or tendinitis. I do aerobics, weights, all that stuff to insulate against the short nights and cramped airplanes. But sometimes nothing helps...
...Simpson verdict last week not only overshadowed Powell's barnstorming will-he-or-won't-he book tour but also distracted national attention from the President's veto of a congressional budget proposal, the Republican plan to cut Medicare and the strenuous antics of all the other real, imagined or longed-for candidates for the presidency, most of whom are not getting all that much attention anyway. But the question on the mind of politicos was not who planted a certain glove but whether the verdict will spur a white backlash that could affect the presidential campaign--and especially...
...Penn was not really a strenuous match for most people,” Wilkins said. “I like that we got one more match in before we played Princeton...