Word: waltz
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...Waltz of the Toreadors uses two sets--one the trophy laden drawing room of General St. Pe, for urbane drawing room comedy, the other the bedroom of his nagging, hypochondriac wife, used for one climactic scene of hysterical bedroom farce. The play's conflict is between hysteria and urbanity, the passionate idealism of youth and the orderly boredom of old age. (The General says, "Life, Gaston, is one long family lunch, tiresome because it has to be performed according to a long established ritual, with initialed napkin rings, embroidered table mats, forks of different shapes and sizes and a bell...
Though barred from Sister Fabiola's wedding, Jimmy has been swift to capitalize on it. He boasts that in Belgium alone, 600,000 copies have been sold of a record containing his compositions entitled Fabiola and Waltz of the Queen. His next ambition is to appear on Ed Sullivan's TV show. He has already written and sold his "memoirs" to a French feature syndicate. Sample: "It is true that, unlike my worthy sisters and brothers, I don't lead a well-ordered life, monotonous and without the unforeseen. But why do they throw rocks...
Dick Nixon's waltz through Maine with Senator Margaret Chase Smith slowed a six-year grand march of the state's Democratic Party. Most unexpected blow of all was the defeat of the intellectual leader of the young Maine Democratic organization, laconic Lewiston Lawyer Frank Coffin, 41, who resigned from Congress in order to run for Governor. (In a final movement of the musical chairs, Coffin's House seat also went to a Republican...
After the press conference, Truman took Kennedy on a tour of the library, played him The Blackhawk Waltz on the piano...
After a welcoming flourish on its gleam ing, 40-in. herald trumpets, the Army band swung smartly into Waltz of the Flowers, and the two old soldiers in mufti stepped out to review their honor guard. Both were out of step with the music, but neither seemed to notice. The niceties of military precision were a remote problem last week to President Dwight Eisenhower and his guest. President Charles de Gaulle. The man of France was making his first visit to the U.S. in 15 years, not as a soldier but as a statesman, not as a pleader...