In contrast: the 12-volume paperback edition of Dance to the Music of Time presented by its author, Anthony Powell, to an Oxford library.

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Tama Kieves, author of This Time I Dance!

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You can take in a movie at the Deco-style Cathay Theatre, completed in the early 1930s, which has a neon-lit spire towering over its marquee, or dance in the ballroom of the Paramount dance hall, which opened at about the same time.

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