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Jennifer M. Fung '97 and Cris Brengeo '88 followed in sixth place. The American Smooth consists of four different dances, including the waltz, fox trot and tango...
...writing a column for TIME and want to demonstrate what a lame novelist Robert James Waller is. Easy, in every sense. I get a copy of Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (which is published by Time Warner), pluck out a piece of lazy prose, and print it here: "A monkey called, sounding far and lonesome. The classic jungle sound from old Tarzan movies." Or I could go a step further and mimic Waller, as Billy Frolick does in his new book-length parody, The Ditches of Edison County ("Concave's scream echoed through the canyons and ditches of Edison County...
...America series. He has shown that he can shoot his camera straight -- and in fairness it should be pointed out that at least he does not cut off the dancers' feet, a common Hollywood error. But in the long Kingdom of the Sweets sequence, the action is blurry. The Waltz of the Flowers, with its swift pace and swirling, swooping movements, almost falls apart. The choreographic patterns are unreadable, and even Nichols' brilliant dancing loses some of its definition...
Robert Waller's novels, The Bridges of Madison County and Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, are both at the top of the New York Times Best Seller list, as No. 1 and No. 2 respectively. That's not all they have in common...
...management at Northern Iowa State University, just happened to tell somebody at Warner Books that, yeah, he had been a semipro, Saturday- night-at-the-Holiday-Inn sort of guitarist and singer since college. And, yeah, he had written a song about Kincaid and Francesca called The Madison County Waltz...