Word: waltzing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...rather than as colonies." At the University of London, Charles' grandma, 70-year-old Queen Mother Elizabeth, shook a leg with the students at their annual ball. While dancing with shaggy-pated Dick Titchen, 24, in what he later described as "a sort of updated version of the waltz," she exclaimed: "Oh, what lovely hair...
Died. Fernand Gravey, 64, Belgian actor whose bilingual charm won him acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic; of a heart attack; in Paris. His Hollywood successes include The Great Waltz and The King and the Chorus Girl. After serving with the French Resistance during the war, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1950, Gravey returned to the French stage and screen (Harvey, La Ronde) and finally brought his flashing smile and Gable mustache to Broadway as the star of Beekman Place...
...album is a mixture, lacking the carefully plotted unity of his greatest records: there are religious songs, a waltz, love ballads, and one puzzling cut that approaches his old despair. Several of them succeed brilliantly, and none of them are painful or infuriating to listen...
...wants to escape, he knows as well that he can't do it yet, if ever. Because his head is just as divided and contradictory and imprisoned as ours. A lot of the record is a tribute to old popular music and jazz, including a Dylan waltz ("winter-lude/this dude thinks you're fine"), and "If Dogs Run Free," a beautiful Mose Allison-style piece which makes no sense at all, but features fine piano and coat-singing in the background...
...pages include a tongue-in-cheek quiz on the Denver Post's handling of two debutante balls-one white, one black. It offers excerpts from the two stories and asks readers to match them with the right ball. Sample 1): "From the moment it started until the last waltz, the rooms were wall-to-wall with vintage bloodlines. There was old money, new money and talented young moneymakers, and everyone shone and everything moved." Sample 2): "About 400 persons attended ..." Answers, if needed, are available...