Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CAMERA pans across a ballroom filled with decadent partygoers. Strains of a Viennese waltz can be heard in the background. The waltz becomes diabolical as the camera zooms into actress Joan Chen's face. A tear rolls down her marble-white cheek. She picks up a lily and starts chewing. slowly and sensually...
...come to the ballroom of the New York Hilton, where 1,200 of the faithful have paid $300 apiece to get the word from the New Age's reigning whirling dervish, Shirley MacLaine. To the soothing accompaniment of crystal chimes and distant waterfalls, the star of Terms of Endearment leads her new acolytes in meditating on the body's various chakras, or energy points. First comes the spinning red wheel of the base chakra, then the sexual pulsation of the orange chakra, and finally upward to the solar plexus and the visceral emotions of the yellow chakra...
...seven-piece band served up a bouncy rendition of the once popular tune Ain't No Stopping Us Now. In the steamy hotel ballroom, Democratic partisans lifted a rhythmic chant: "Mabus, Mabus, Mabus." On the podium, Mississippi's new Governor-elect let out a short celebratory whoop, then slowly declared, "Change has come." He repeated his campaign theme, "Mississippi will never be last again...
...Hilton ballroom is sold out, and Cosby, after starting slowly, leaves the crowd howling at his routine on trifocal eyeglasses. In his spacious dressing room between shows, he wolfs rigatoni puttanesca and taps his toe to a jazz tape by Slim Gaillard while entertaining a stream of callers. A casino manager from Reno has flown in with a wholesale price book for sterling flatware; Cosby wants 70 place settings, and he wants a better price than the $98,000 he was quoted retail. He takes a call from a wine merchant about some cases of Chateau Petrus, but tells...
Place holds 3,450 people, 2,000 on the dance floor, 1,450 in the end zones or on the sidelines at any given time. Says Mr. Adam: "No ballroom, even in Europe, can compete with Roseland. I don't think any ballroom in the whole globe can touch it. There is no competition in New York." On the bandstand the singer with the Don Glasser Orchestra announces, "And now, for Marge and Dominick, here is Blue Bayou...