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- <text id=89TT2160>
- <title>
- Aug. 21, 1989: World Notes:France
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 21, 1989 How Bush Decides
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 38
- World Notes
- FRANCE
- Dirty Dancing, Ma Cherie?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> "After the new chastity, it's a return to sin," proclaimed
- the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. It is the lambada, a
- sensuous dance that sets the pelvis-to-pelvis physicality of
- Dirty Dancing to a steamy Brazilian beat. Spawned on the
- northeast coast of Brazil, the lambada has swept through France
- this summer. A soda commercial showing young bodies entwined in
- a lambada frenzy was an instant hit, and Lambada, a song that
- served as the ad's sound track, has sold more than 1 million
- copies.
- </p>
- <p> The lambada is especially hot along the Cote d'Azur, where
- touring Brazilian dancers are showing French vacationers how to
- thrust their stuff. But is the lambada just this summer's hype?
- "It will become a classic," declares singer Loalwa Braz. "And
- it will be even more agreeable to dance in the winter. It's a
- way to keep warm."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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