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...Vowed to abandon the library filled weekends of yore and jump onto the Latin-loving bandwagon-learn to live la vida loca with tango lessons. Tango By Moonlight, hosted by the Tango Society of Boston takes place once a month on the Weeks Memorial Footbridge across from Dunster and Leverett House. Nearing the end of their third season this alternative society will offer one more twisting and twirling extravaganza (Saturday October 23rd from...
...years ago, when sexuality was a subject that attracted serious moviemakers and moviegoers. The X-rated Midnight Cowboy won the top Oscar for 1969; Columbia Pictures released the sexy French film Emmanuelle and made a bundle; Marlon Brando poured out his heart and his lust in Last Tango in Paris (back then the erotic accessory was butter, not hair gel, and its application was an adventure, not a joke). You had to be 18 to see these films, but so what? Then the kids took over the box office. Hollywood learned how to eroticize violence and forgot how to dramatize...
After a year of meetings, alumnae protests, media scrutiny and competing plans for the future, Cambridge's longest tango came to an end when Harvard and Radcliffe announced their intent to merge...
After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in 1995, Lan took up organ-playing at Memorial Church, and served as president of the Society for Physics Students. Lan also learned to tango so she could choreograph Stravinksy's tango from 1940, which she researched for her thesis...
...Like the tango, Lan insists that many of her current interests and projects were picked up quite by accident. She is teaching herself Japanese because she won a summer fellowship from the music department to study the culture of the tango in China, Japan and Taiwan. She brushes up on high school German to read the papers of Einstein, Bach, Mozart, and Brahms in their original German, and she is currently composing a piece for chorus and orchestra in Chinese because her mother happened to be "listening to a lot of Chinese music" when Lan went home to New York...