Word: tango
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...Marital Misery "The Honeymoon's Over" reported on the 30,000 or more Indian women who have been abandoned by émigré husbands [Nov. 5]. But it takes two to tango, and not every Indian bride is innocent or naive. There are cases of Indian husbands becoming victims at the hands of their self-centered, manipulative brides. Some women enter into overseas marriages when they have a boyfriend living in the foreign country of their destination. They use the unsuspecting husbands as a way to join these boyfriends. Or they use the husband for professional advancement or to transplant...
Once Kitcho's discreet doors finally slid open, it was a lesson in omotenashi, or no-holds-barred hospitality. No detail would be overlooked to make us feel welcome and the experience exceptional. Likewise, we had to fulfill our part of the deal by being appreciative clients. Like a tango, kaiseki is a collaboration between host and guest...
Argentina has danced the most difficult tango. Kirchner--whose wife Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was elected to succeed him as President last month--took populist measures to keep the country of 40 million governable. He renationalized some utilities and set export limits on essential goods like meat to moderate prices. But rather than blow a windfall from commodity exports--prices for Argentine products like soybeans have hit all-time highs in recent years--Argentina replenished its foreign reserves (a record $44 billion today), pared debt and built a strong fiscal surplus. "Overspending and overindebtedness caused the crisis," says...
...Soccer is the only great surviving passion in this country," says sports journalist David Carlin. "Tango music has a strong following, but it lacks the sense of rivalry that competing clubs bring to soccer. [The political ideologies of] Peronism and anti-Peronism also once provided a similar sense of belonging and loyalty to a mass group, but that kind of political fervor has subsided in recent years...
...tango scholars to define their object of study and you’re likely to get three different answers. For some, it’s a melodic language of nostalgia and loss. For others, it’s the synchrony of two bodies in motion. And for some, it’s a symbol of passion and possession deeply interwoven in structures of social authority. At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the curtain will rise on “Tango! Dance the World Around: Global Transformations of Latin American Culture,” a weekend conference in Radcliffe Yard that will...