Word: waltzed
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...Victorians everywhere moved between the illimitable and the unmentionable, their arms outstretched toward vast new horizons, their eyes averted from the simplest barnyard facts. Theirs was the pre-eminent age of the railway, the morning newspaper, the club, the waltz, and eventually the tea party. But it was the age, above all, of an entrenched middle class and hence an enthroned respectability. Men were known to play tennis in top hats. The Biblical historian. H. H. Milman, was ostracized for calling Abraham a sheik. The Victorian Sunday was as cheer less as a steel engraving; the Victorian matron went swathed...
...they are funny in a slapstick way, just as Foucheval is often funny in a flip way. But comedy added to philosophy does not automatically produce tragicomedy: Morrow has made no synthesis of tone. It is a miracle that the audience can appreciate the mood of Moira's marvelous waltz scene. The last act is also dramatically outrageous, despite fine touches of lighting and staging...
...gloves), the staccato rhythms tapped out on a walking stick like a hollow third leg, and the agitated centipede footwork interrupted with dazzling toothpasty smiles. The funniest number casts Montand as a feverish symphony conductor who snaps his baton, his Beethoven concert and his career in two to waltz off with a girl who cares only for waltzes. In sentimental Parisian songs, Montand runs the risk of sounding like a younger Chevalier, but winds through his own Paris as naturally as the Seine...
Beverly, Mass., North Shore Music Theater: Met Soprano Mary Curtis-Verna in The Great Waltz...
...time in early 1962, Unruh picks up the speaker's gavel, he will take over a post that by the nature of its duties stands second only to the governorship in importance. And California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") "Brown, a political master of the hesitation waltz, should be no particular obstacle in the path of Unruh's drive for actual party power. Already Unruh is greeted far more warmly in John Kennedy's White House than Brown...