Word: waltz
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...might not seem like the most standard way to start a day, but tradition trumps practicality for Lowell House residents every year on the first of May. Early yesterday morning, a few dozen tuxedo- and gown-clad Lowell students congregated for the house’s annual May Day Waltz. For over 30 years, according to participants, Lowellians have gathered at 6 a.m. on Weeks Footbridge to watch local residents mark the festivities along the banks of the Charles River. House Committee Chairs Julia M. Chandler ’07 and Jonathan V. Brewer ’07 said they...
...innocuous convenience store is now part of the conspiracy to promote promiscuity among teenagers. CVS participates in the unrestricted sale of items that blatantly encourage sexual activities among impressionable college-age consumers. These items, as everyone knows, are for the use of married adults, but just anyone can waltz into the drugstore and buy a package—even several packages!—without presenting a valid state ID or even a marriage license. I can hardly contain myself any longer—I demand a boycott. CVS needs to stop selling diapers. Everybody knows that diapers are used...
...Pierre, who volunteers to supervise after-school detention for the high-schoolers (the real Dulaine taught grammar-school kids), has a steely will to match theirs. He will teach them the seven classic ballroom dances: waltz, Viennese waltz, fox trot, swing, tango, rumba and meringay. And if they dedicate themselves to it, they can compete in the city-wide dance-off at the end of the term. One kids sneers: "Music is corny. There's no feeling." To prove he's wrong, Pierre bends and blends. When someone proposes to mix the standards repertoire with a hip-hop beat, Pierre...
...wrong at Hailsham, the very exclusive English boarding school that Kathy H. attends. The students there seem to have no parents, their teachers are wary of them, and they cannot leave the grounds. (You can catch echoes of a dark, inverted Harry Potter.) Part science fiction--horror, part existential waltz, Never Let Me Go is a gripping story about ordinary people trying to wring some joy out of life before it's too late--and for Kathy and her friends, it has always been too late...
...compositions, such as the jazzy While I Wait for You and the retro '50s-ish Caught Up (performed with Memphis Horns founder Wayne Jackson, who played with Elvis and Aretha Franklin), showcase her songwriting skills. Her quiet duet with Daniel Lanois, in the waltz La Merveille, is a heartfelt tribute to her Francophone heritage...