Word: tango
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...while she pined for the sights and smells of her childhood--even those that evoked memories of the death, pain and poverty she witnessed--her time in exile exposed her to entirely new styles of music. Jazz, pop and rock 'n' roll complemented her roots in Andean and tango rhythms and boosted a six-decade career in which she performed with singers as diverse as Luciano Pavarotti, Ray Charles, Shakira and Joan Baez, who was once so moved by Sosa's music that she fell to the vocalist's feet during a concert and kissed her toes. Just months before...
...Whatever happens, Sanford's bizarre tango - coming less than a week after another GOP presidential hopeful, Nevada Senator John Ensign, admitted having an extramarital affair with a staffer - is yet another scandalous blow to his party's family-values image. Democrats, as former President Clinton and more recently former North Carolina Senator John Edwards proved, are hardly immune to these disasters. But Sanford, a conservative Christian, has long portrayed himself as a model family man devoted to his wife of 20 years and their four sons. While he asked for his state's forgiveness, his hypocrisy and that of many...
Rivalry, redemption, revelry—three of the most central and palpable themes in college athletics—were all in play this past weekend for the Harvard men’s tennis team. Continuing its season-closing seven-match tango in the Ivy League, the Crimson (12-9, 4-2 Ivy) hosted No. 73 Brown (18-9, 4-2 Ivy) at home at the Beren Tennis Center on Friday, then traveled to New Haven on Sunday to battle rival No. 64 Yale (13-8, 3-3 Ivy). Against two familiar, higher-ranked enemies, Harvard secured a pair of morale...
...anything,” said Fleisher, who was Shannon’s close friend and colleague. “He always did more than his share of what needed to be done.” Shannon was returning from Argentina, where he spent his vacation taking tango lessons with his wife and friends. Fleisher recalled Shannon’s passion for dance—which, along with his pursuit of medicine, would come to define his life. “At our annual holiday parties, all the women would want to dance with Michael,” Fleisher said...
...lower registers of Molina’s songs, balancing her breathy, ethereal voice. “My goal was to have more bottom end and a thicker bass,” Molina says.Molina’s history is as rich as her music; the daughter of the famed tango singer Horacio Molina, she spent several years in Paris after her family fled the Argentine military coup of 1976. Upon her return to South America, she began a career in television, starring in two popular Argentine series and releasing her first album, “Rara?...