Word: tango
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Walking across Boulevard St. Michel in Paris last week, on the night before Bastille Day, I bumped into an old friend - an American who has lived in the city for 25 years - who told me he was taking up the tango. When I asked him why, he suggested I take a stroll along the Left Bank of the Seine, opposite Ile St. Louis, and so of course...
...numerous invocations of God, specifically Jesus. On Star Search, Mormon teen dance act Sudden Impact assured viewers, "We won't let our dancing compromise our religion." Apparently, Joseph Smith would have been cool with the tight, midriff-baring outfit in which the lead girl hoofed a smoky tango...
...swore it would be my last: the problem was that the aspect of being at sea that interested me the most, the being-at-sea part, was minimized to the point that I almost forgot I was on board a ship. The entertainment was relentless?bridge tournaments, tango lessons, fancy-dress balls and mini-Las Vegas floor shows?and so was the food. Before my cruising days began, I had imagined myself braving the elements, face-to-face with the majesty of the sea under an immensity of sky. Instead, I seemed to be part of a team effort...
...feistiness with his calm intellectualism. Naddaff-Hafrey, the youngest member of the cast, a sixth grader and Mather House resident, always seems to be above the fray, delivering his comic lines directly to the audience. Nadaff-Hafrey also wins the dance competition among the group for his tango with Linus’ security blanket...
ASSASSINATION TANGO. Robert Duvall’s career as a film actor reads like a smorgasbord of human types; he’s played a surf-crazy colonel in Apocalypse Now, a conformist tightass in MASH, a fire-spitting preacher in The Apostle and everybody in between. He lets his feet do some of the talking as he stars in Assassination Tango, a dance-tinged character study armed with a title that explains its plot with TV Guide-caliber brevity (Duvall’s an assassin, and he tangos!). Duvall’s aging hitman, his hair yanked back...