Word: tangoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both centuries there is what Sheridan himself admitted was "an excessive opulence of wit," a lack of natural character delineation and of structural unity. The present production underlines this similarity by constant jibes at Christopher Fry, the Prince of Intellectual Fireworks (at one point there is a lengthy conversation-tango right out of his Ring Around the Moon...
...dance craze was sweeping the hemisphere. Part rumba and part jive, with a strong dash of itching powder, the mambo had left unstormed only the tango strongholds of Argentina and the samba-land of Brazil. In all the other Americas, dancers quivered and kicked-sedately in swank nightclubs and wildly in smoky dives-to the mambo beat. This week its originator, Dámaso Pérez Prado, 29, was scheduled to arrive in New York to carry the assault...
...Budapest monthly Muvelt Nep (Cultured People) laid out for its readers the Hungarian Communist line on dancing. The waltz and polka are "traditionally democratic." The tango, fox trot and English waltz, though "reflections of the capitalist decline . . . cannot be classed with American dances. They may now be danced with taste." But the samba, swing, boogie-woogie, rumba, conga and the like "are tools of aggression let loose by the bosses of America against human culture and progress...
Ring Round the Moon has a measure of wit along with its grace, and a tango scene that deigns to be altogether hilarious. In a generally good production, Lucile Watson is amusing as the ball's aristocratic wheelchaired hostess, Denholm Elliott smooth and agile as both twin brothers, and Oscar Karlweis suavely despondent as an unwilling millionaire. But Ring Round the Moon seems frequently garrulous and increasingly tenuous and a little too complacently impromptu. The whole effect is rather like finding a filmy handkerchief with a ravishing scent and searching in vain for its owner...
Experts wrote essays proving that the bambuco had been the national dance all along. So far as Bogotá was concerned, the rumba, samba and the tango had a new and potent rival...