Word: waltzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elegantly produced and acted with full romantic flourishes. It is a typical exhibit in Britain's current campaign to beat Hollywood at its own game (see above). The music includes the Grieg Concerto in A Minor, the Mozart Sonata in C Major and something called the Seventh Veil Waltz. Ghost Pianist Eileen Joyce and the London Symphony Orchestra perform superbly. But British moviemakers have learned more than expert photography from Hollywood: cinemaddicts will not be very much surprised to see at the end that Francesca's heart has really been yearning for True Love...
...CASTLE WALTZ-Louis Slobodkin-Vanguard...
...doldrum days between World Wars I & II, Louis Slobodkin, then a broth of a boy, now a ranking U.S. sculptor, decided to ship as a deckhand on the tramp freighter S.S. Hermanita, plying between the Port of New York and Latin America. Fo'castle Waltz is his 352-page total recall of this nautical episode...
...highlights of Fo'castle Waltz (some of them are quite high) are the crew's dingy benders and revels among the bordellos of an Argentine port, the perilous voyage back to the U.S. (which the rickety S.S. Hermanita made in ballast with the pumps choked and the lifeboats rusted to the davits), and Author Slobodkin's one-man mutiny when he was fed up with cleaning sewage from the bilges...
...Amerlean travelers were calling for nothing but La Bamba. As they do it at Giro's. La Bamba is actually a Mexican version of the Cuban rumba, but more of a bouncy folk dance. At one point the girl swings away from her partner, does a brief waltz step with a hop and a tap thrown in, while picking up her skirts and swishing them back & forth in flirty fashion. Nobody bothers about a ribbon on the floor, or singing while they dance, as the jarachos...