The Americans, meanwhile, had Coca-Cola, chocolate, family life, music and dance--all the pleasures we lacked.
For now, it's back to the town-by-town lobbying dance--an expensive one, at that.
You meet someone you don't know on the side of the dance floor and dance - it's intimate, it's romantic, it's a bond like no other.
The video -- featuring his now famous horsey dance -- has spawned hundreds of parodies and so far has been watched 472 million times and achieved 4.1 million likes -- a record for a YouTube video.
The milonga -- essentially any place or event where people gather to dance tango -- is where the history of the dance meets its future, where the nostalgic sounds of accordions blend with the rejuvenating energy of youth, and where the most seasoned dancers share the dance floor with novices.
Already, there are medieval how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin debates about which method is most appropriate.
Fortunately the Collector's Edition DVD, which features a video interview with Mr. Spielberg, gives us the movie's set pieces -- like the dance-hall sequence -- in all their swooping glory.
Calzaghe and dance partner Kristina Rihanoff were beaten in the dance-off by actress Zoe Lucker and her partner James Jordan.
Michael's actions in later years -- from his serial plastic surgeries, which removed all family resemblance, to his famous crotch-grabbing dance move -- can be seen as lashing out over that abuse, Wanis said.
Votes cast by the public were added to the judges' scores, leaving the two dance pairs with the lowest scores to fight for survival in the dance-off.
Brubeck took California's "West Coast Cool" school and with mathematical intellection removed it even further from the sweaty dance rhythms of jazz gone by: The album's compositions were in tricky, decidedly dance-averse time signatures.
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An assortment of geeky 20-something males and the odd suited salaryman faithfully mirror the girls' dance-routine, punching the air with glow-sticks when the refrain comes through.
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Hollywood films such as 2008's "The Love Guru" and 2005's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" -- which ends with a musical dance number -- also borrow from Bollywood, Newman said, but are comedies that parody the enchantment in Bollywood films.
Baauer's Harlem Shake - the song behind the latest internet dance craze - fell from three to eight in the singles chart, while Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's Thrift Shop dropped from two to four.
Phra Klairung Rujidhammo was recently catapulted to national fame when he was filmed performing suggestive dance moves, known here as coyote dancing after the film "Coyote Ugly" set in a New York dance-bar.
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"The Hard Nut, " an alternative take on the ballet by the Brooklyn-based Mark Morris Dance Group featuring groovy 1960s dance moves and a remote-controlled rat, canceled performances in Berkeley, Calif.
On weekends, the park's ice-laden Rogers Crystal Lounge gives new meaning to "glittering nightlife" as it also hosts dance parties - including one that emphasises Canada's rich First Nations (aboriginal) heritage.
The commercial failure of the latest albums by Britain's two biggest dance acts - Fatboy Slim's Palookaville and The Prodigy's Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned - has been coupled with the closure of many "superclubs, " and the folding of three dance music magazines.
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Even the most dance-floor-friendly Gaga hit has a black hole of fear at its center.
Widely hailed as the forefathers of today's electronic-dance-music revolution, the group has a devoted cult following.
This model involves coils and magnets which move under the dance-floor to create a charge.
He recently won the Jazz Journalists Association's Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for writing in 2011.
The first thing Ms. Rodrigues did was mention that she was looking for work to tango dance-class partners.
The desegregated finale, "You Can't Stop the Beat, " is a blow-the-roof-off ensemble dance-fest that not even I could resist.
If Tedder is the king of the ballad, the trio rules the realm of insanely catchy, fiendishly layered dance-floor-fillers.
An ISO 6400 exposure index ensures that photographs in a dance-club or a romantic candle-lit restaurant are not compromised.
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There are usually dozens on offer, catering to the throngs of dance-loving milongueros.
Roller derby was introduced by a Chicago dance-marathon promoter named Leo Seltzer during the bleakest days of the 1930s.
Making the final cut was a shock Denise Van Outen, who had been voted into the dance-off during the quarter and semi-finals.
Adding to the pressure of the semi-final, the couples did not get a chance to be saved in the dance-off.
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