Word: tangoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last Tango in Paris. Harvard Square, Monday at 12 and 6:25 p.m. With Bertolucci...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Bernardo Bertolucci, 38, Italian film director (Last Tango in Paris, 1900); and Clare Peploe, 31, his English assistant and onetime companion of Film Director Michelangelo Antonioni; both for the first time; on Dec. 16, in Rome...
Truly shocking movies are those that use sex and violence to push the audience to some new and uncharted psychological frontier. That is what happened in Last Tango in Paris, where Bertolucci used raunchy sex to challenge the conventions of romantic love; it is also what happened in The Godfather, where Coppola used gore to undermine the sanctities of the American family. Though imperfect, Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter is as powerful as those bombshells of the early '70s. This excruciatingly violent, three-hour Viet Nam saga demolishes the moral and ideological cliches...
Then misfortune struck. Ten days before Lexington, Irish Cap went lame. Davidson immediately switched to a powerful gray named Might Tango, which had been in training at his farm. Might Tango was only seven?young for a jumper?and relatively inexperienced. Says Davidson: "It was like taking him from high school football to the Rose Bowl...
...event's first day was devoted to the stylized art of dressage, in which the rider, using reins and pressure from his legs, guides his horse through intricate maneuvers ("Serpentine three loops, the first and the third at canter, the second counter-canter ..."). Davidson kept Might Tango under control: "I had to hold him back and keep him from exploding." And although the young horse lacked "precision," as the experts say, he still did well enough to finish eleventh...