Word: tangoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also has the gestures down pat, even to keeping his teeth bared while asleep. He surpasses even his master in over-sensitivity and sentimentality, and becomes, with his R.A.F. accent and adventure fantasies, the most human of the entire company. His vaudeville number, "Suppertime," complete with can-can and tango, is the high-point of the evening, and deserves the standing ovation it received...
...memorized, her score shut and her mind open. "I can ask her to try anything onstage," marvels Tito Capobianco, who has directed most of her successes at City Opera and whom Beverly regards as "her" director. She mugs, sings lying down, and once, in Buenos Aires, even danced the tango with six Argentine stagehands. All in the cause of easing tensions and clearing the way for creative work. "Beverly, was that an F and G in your part?" Conductor Aldo Ceccato once asked during a snarl-up in a recording session. "It could have been...
Some scenes, like a blue-lit stroll down the Faubourg, like a dance-hall in which two silk-swathed women dance a drunken, passionate tango, like an amphitheatre-like hospital for the mentally ill where the whiteness of the walls is relieved only by the paleness of pallid flesh, are demonically spell-binding. In fact, the succession of images-a giant stone head of Mussolini dragged across a bridge by two motorcycles, the fire-lit nude body of a homosexual eating dead cats amid the ruins of the Forum, Trintignant's eyes-recalls Fellini Satyricon in their bizarre intensity...
...timeconsuming, but not always. One result is that fads are epidemic. Paris fashions and the latest rock beats reach Tokyo almost as quickly as they reach New York. The current singing sensation is Osamu Minagawa, a Tokyo six-year-old whose recording of something called Kuro Neko No Tango (Black Cat Tango) has sold 2,000.000 records, mostly on the basis of his imitation of a mewing cat. Baseball has been booming since Babe Ruth's visit 35 years ago, but now there are also booms in skiing, golf and gambling; wagers on horse, auto and hydroplane races totaled...