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...Radcliffe women, in full-skirted, ankle-length dresses, would sit or stand around the edge of the dance floor and hope for an invitation to dance to the strains of a live orchestra playing such songs as “Let’s Build a Stairway to Paradise?? or “Racing with the Moon.” The fox-trot, interspersed with waltzes, rhumbas, sambas, and jitterbug, was the popular rhythm. In those days, knowing how to dance was akin to knowing how to brush your teeth: you had been doing it regularly since...
...cheesy pop ballads, 19th-century waltzes, and pretty much everything in between.” Les Phys also pokes fun at the Broadway genre, with a running Les Misérables gag and references to everything from The Sound of Music to “Gangsta’s Paradise?? in the song lyrics. Heller reflects this playfulness in dance sequences that parody famous Broadway scenes. “There’s a definite West Side Story moment,” she says of a scene where a conversation between Steve and Christene about vectors transforms into...
...those who snagged it on import, Since I Left You was undoubtedly the soundtrack to the summer. As an anonymous voice puts it, “Welcome to Paradise??—a tour-de-force of variations on “happy,” it compels you to discard your troubles and obligations and simply enjoy the moment. Also present is a more elusive touch of nostalgia which lingers long after one stops listening. This isn’t the stilted soul typically employed by dance subgenres in need of validation (deep house, atmospheric jungle...
...poem “Roadside Stand” begins: “In the watermelon and corn season, / The earth is a paradise??: just the set-up one might expect from a summer poem. However, further on we read: “It’s all there, the bell peppers, the radishes, / Local blueberries and blackberries / That will stain our lips and tongues / As if we were freezing to death in the snow.” Though they may seem out of place, the image of our purple-stained lips is too hauntingly accurate to dismiss...