Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Down the street, Howard Baker's issue-oriented theme song ("I believe in this country, I believe in this land, I'm gonna do everything I can, To make it special again") preceded the candidate into the ballroom. An AP photographer of the twelve-Nikon ilk rattled forward and loomed over the diminutive Republican, to the exclusion of all press behind him: "Definite Cretinism," whispered a photographer next...
...mammoth Washington Hilton ballroom, Rex Humbard, 60, and his family tape their down-home variety show of song and gospel patter for his 236 TV outlets in the U.S. and 414 in other nations. The set: a rotating stage carpeted in black velvet with a ramp bordered by flashing lights...
Among the Communist administration's more popular projects has been a vast open-air entertainment festival, dubbed Roman Summer, that has brought the capital concerts and ballroom dancing in public parks. The program has been singularly successful, so much so that it has tended to show up the Communist regime's failures by comparison. Says a former public health service physician: "In a city where mail remains undelivered, garbage litters the streets, schools are infested with lice, and terror and crime stalk the streets, the only thing the Communists gave us is dancing in the park...