Word: waltzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JOHN ADAMS: NIXON IN CHINA (Nonesuch). A waltz across the Great Wall with Dick, Pat, Henry and Mao: the year's best new opera recording...
Well, not so unattainable as they used to be. After near extinction in the 1960s and '70s, ballroom dancing has waltzed back into fashion. "Almost every romantic comedy movie I've seen lately has a ballroom-dance scene," observes Hilary Ginsberg, co-owner of New York City's Roseland, with one of the largest dance floors in the world. Across the land, nightclubs are revising their programs to meet the demand for a place to swing, mambo, tango or waltz. Business at private dance studios is booming, with an estimated 600,000 students signing up for lessons this year...
Young people in particular are finding more occasions that require some expertise on the dance floor; at the least, they want to be able to waltz at their weddings. Rubin's swing group plays at about 100 such receptions a year. "I ask 22- to 27-year-olds how much rock 'n' roll they want, and often they say, 'None.' They want to do the fox-trot and the lindy." For some it may turn out to be a professional necessity; young executives bring their husbands or wives to business dinners and find that they are both out of step...
NIXON IN CHINA (Nonesuch). A waltz across the Great Wall with Dick, Pat, Henry, Mao and the missus: last year's best new opera is this year's best new opera recording...
Such a flick, says Feelies Co-Founder Glenn Mercer, 33, would be a combination of The Last Waltz and Night of the Living Dead. But if it must remain fantasy for a while longer, its premise serves as an excellent introduction to the kind of sweet electroshock the band can provide. Director Jonathan Demme concocted the Living Feelies idea when he first saw the band in 1980, and he subsequently cast the Feelies in Something Wild in 1986 and put | their tune Too Far Gone on the sound track of his current Married to the Mob. Demme says flat...