Word: waltzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with moonlight and poured out their yearnings in great warm gusts of melody; Natasha pirouetted giddily at a ball and lacily sang her infatuation with Anatol across the shimmer and sheen of violins. In one magnificent ball scene, a percussive, insistent invitation to the dance ("Dance, dance, dance the waltz") eerily foreshadowed the dance of death that was to come on the battlefields. In other passages the music sparkled with a dry wit, or lilted through the great candlelit palaces...
...Waltz of the Toreadors is an import from London, not Madrid. (The Spanish know better.) There is a lot of frank talk about sex, at the Colonial...
When a public dance hall named Roseland opened on Broadway in 1919, smart young people had recently deserted the waltz for the foxtrot, were just beginning to master the delicate nuances of the shimmy. Sam Lanin and his Ipana Troubadours were on the bandstand, thumping out such Ziegfeld Follies hits as Mandy and You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea. Since that distant New Year's Eve, generations of stag-line Romeos and their girls have bunny-hugged Lindy-hopped, Charlestoned, big-appled black-bottomed and jitterbugged under Roseland's star-studded ceiling...
Married. Patti Page, 29 (real name: Clara Ann Fowler), chunky jukebox choraler (Tennessee Waltz, Doggie in the Window); and Dance Director Charles O'Curran, 42; she for the second time, he for the third (his first: Cinemactress Betty Hutton); in Las Vegas...
...most repulsive record. The hero, admitted sad sack, liar and cheat, comes out all right because, by golly, the Lord is on his side. He is prompted in his wobbly confessional by a sanctimonious, echoing female, and goaded by a whining girls' trio in a sickly waltz...