Word: waltz
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...been reborn as the grandiose 200-room Sofitel Central Hua Hin Resort. Yet the enormous balconies, antique furnishings and white colonial architecture still reflect the unique style of Thailand's first hotel (opened 80 years ago this October). High tea at the Museum Caf? is a veritable waltz back in time, prodded by vintage railroad paraphernalia and aged photos on the walls...
Salsa and Merengue, Social Latin—Cha-cha and Rumba, and Waltz and Tango are the other three classes being offered. They all take place weekly at Lowell Lecture Hall, where anyone—even those not affiliated with Harvard—may pay a $30 to join for the summer...
...show to a grinding halt. Since the material started out without music and works best without it onstage, many have concluded that musicalization was unnecessary. Yet the few powerful musical moments, particularly Lithgow’s “For Susan,” a devastatingly creepy, incestuous waltz and “Don’t Look Now,” a vaudeville number, leave me convinced that the show might indeed work best as a musical—just with a different compositional team...
...best teams are in the West. The Lakers, the Spurs, the Kings, the Trail Blazers, the Timberwolves...heck, the Jazz, the Sonics—even the Clippers are better than any team in the East. But the NBA is set up in such a way that the Celtics could waltz into the Championship, a la the Patriots, and “shock” the world...
...bother indeed, when these measures of cinematic merit mean very little? This year’s political hardball concerning A Beautiful Mind’s campaign reminds us that even when the right people waltz away with the right statuettes, their victories are more often the result of behind-the-scenes chicanery than mere onscreen magic. Unfortunately, many of the more excellent films do not have the resources to compete for Academy votes on the same level as Hollywood’s studio behemoths, who often simply decide to put all their eggs in one basket. The Coen Brothers?...