Word: waltz
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...scores for composition or technical merit. They did it despite choosing music, Ravel's Bolero, that does not contain a change of tempo, supposedly a requirement. But to Torvill and Dean, ice dancing is much more than a Roseland medley of a dash of tango, a pinch of waltz, then up and out with some fancy polka footwork. In place of the rules, they offered an idea: music as movement, not scaffolding; skating as expression, not simply virtuosic display...
Will they waltz away with yachting's most hallowed prize...
...Japanese phenomenon. Some is quite discerning, more of it is nonsense. The latter treats the Japanese success as a sort of mystical trick, a performance of managerial jujitsu. A concealed racist premise of these analyses is that?what's this??a colony of ants has taught itself to waltz. The wonder is not that they do it well, but that they...
Indeed, it is Western, not traditional music, that has become the Japanese lingua franca. On television, the strains of Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro plug Suntory whisky, and a Strauss waltz is used as a background for a refrigerator-deodorizer ad. At a children's concert by the New Japan Philharmonic recently, more than 2,000 grade schoolers in the audience rose at the conductor's behest and, in two-part harmony, sang the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth...
...controls are in prospect, but the length and strength of the current expansion will depend upon how well the White House, Congress and the Federal Reserve Board contain prices. If they succeed, the recovery could be a long waltz instead of a brief flashdance...