Word: tangos
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...been four months since we last danced the technology tango on these pages. For many of us, the summer has gone by like a fleeting instant...
...Force fighter jockey, the other a Soviet test pilot--watched from opposite sides of the world as their countries staged a high-tech media event. The brief political thaw known as detente was in full flow, and high overhead the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft were locked in an orbital tango. Their commanders reached through the spaceships' air locks for a symbolic handshake, amid much talk that the superpowers were going to move from the space race of the 1960s to a new era of space cooperation. Despite efforts in that direction, little availed, and shortly after the declaration of martial...
...tango begins with each fashion season, in the showrooms of Seventh Avenue or SoHo. Magazine editors -- powerful tastemakers with impeccable taste -- survey the racks of samples from the designer's newest line. They make their choices -- the Calvin Kleins for the summer spread; the Gianni Versaces for the feature on The New Glamour. Then a jacket catches the editor's eye. She pulls it from the racks, fingers the rich fabric, tries it on, feels that familiar adrenaline rush...
These song lyrics from "The Way You Look Tonight" were first featured in the 1936 black-and-white musical "Swing Time." Fred Astaire sang them to the ineffable Ginger Rogers, who was coiffed and dressed as immaculately as always, ready to waltz (or tango, or foxtrot) into his arms...
...character goes from being the same and sober one of the pair--Curtis is the flamboyant, womanizing risk-taker--to a state of madcap abandon. There's a gleam in his eyes as he shakes a pair of maracas, or holds a rose between his teeth during a tango with Brown, that is nothing short of priceless. The tango scene is one of the greatest in comedy film history, and it works because of Lemmon...