Comments on: Come for the politics, stay for the dance https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/23/come-for-the-politics-stay-for-the-dance/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:37:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: foxmarks https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/23/come-for-the-politics-stay-for-the-dance/#comment-309712 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:37:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13033#comment-309712 davisbr: Neat. The first one, maybe just because the video is black-and-white, is Newt’s EEG during a debate.

It’s the perfect abstraction of Newt’s neurons at work.

]]> By: DNW https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/23/come-for-the-politics-stay-for-the-dance/#comment-309251 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:37:28 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13033#comment-309251 This reference to dancing cowboys kind of cracks me up, and reminds me of the crushing disappointment I experienced as a small child when a promising looking movie set in the western outdoors, would come on; only to develop into an atrocity featuring a soft-featured male forced into a jean jacket, bellowing out a love song to a woman who obviously held virtually no interest for him, while a troupe of iffy looking types grinning insanely through paste on beards, arms akimbo, pants tucked into their boots, exaggeratedly strutted and pranced in a mannered fashion before a cardboard pine tree backdrop. Where’s John Wayne?

““Oh, really? I always wondered why myself.”

“Because she’s not wearing any underwear.””

The Maltese Falcon DVD has a bonus 1942 Warner’s Movie Night feature composed of cartoons, a news reel, and a group called the Monte Carlo Russe Ballet or something like that, doing a Can Can themed routine about some guy from Bolivia who goes to Paris. The freeze frame feature reveals that the women – who have surprisingly good legs for that era – are indeed wearing underwear.

]]> By: Beverly https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/23/come-for-the-politics-stay-for-the-dance/#comment-309167 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:02:30 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13033#comment-309167 Years ago, I took a much-too-precocious 7-year-old to see Fantasia (daughter of a movie director and a screenwriter).

As we watched the dance of the Hippo and the Crocodile, she leaned over and whispered conspiratorially, “I know why he’s interested in her.”

“Oh, really? I always wondered why myself.”

“Because she’s not wearing any underwear.”

]]> By: Don Carlos https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/23/come-for-the-politics-stay-for-the-dance/#comment-309128 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:14:40 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13033#comment-309128 We’re not recognizing Aaron Copland’s rather well-known music in these ballets. Ballet without music is what?

]]> By: Roy Lofquist https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/23/come-for-the-politics-stay-for-the-dance/#comment-309124 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:56:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13033#comment-309124 From the original “Fantasia” – one of the finest films ever made. The sequel was just plain embarrassing.

Amilcare Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours”, heard in the clip, was used by Allan Sherman in the very popular novelty song “Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda”.

]]> By: davisbr https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/23/come-for-the-politics-stay-for-the-dance/#comment-309063 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:07:46 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13033#comment-309063

I know the music to “Sabre Dance”, but not the dancing. It has the swirling momentum of Newt in full throat, spinning out ideas.

Uh.

…I admit to having juxtaposition issues with this, (contextually and visually).

…but WTH, any excuse for a ballet.

Sabre Dance. Aram Khachaturian. Bolshoi Theater Dancers. 1964.

…I also liked this version (though the video is a bit dark).

]]> By: foxmarks https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/23/come-for-the-politics-stay-for-the-dance/#comment-309046 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:35:15 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13033#comment-309046 Gingrich’s oratorical technique is more like a swordsman. He’s a slasher, not a pounder. I know the music to “Sabre Dance”, but not the dancing. It has the swirling momentum of Newt in full throat, spinning out ideas.

]]> By: Ozyripus https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/23/come-for-the-politics-stay-for-the-dance/#comment-309033 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:07:02 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13033#comment-309033 Chris Stirewalt (Fox News) has a column, referenced today in RealClearPolitics (“Newt’s Jacksonian Revolution”), that nicely compares Newt with President Andrew Jackson, an idea that struck me yesterday, I’ll claim. A large part of Stirewalt’s argument has to do with the shocked! shocked! reaction of the nice New Englanders in Jackson’s day, and the analogous RINOs today.

My educated, cultured friends don’t quite understand how someone who grew up in a white, self-sufficient, working-class family could be so happy to see it put to the snotty University types. Newt does it with glee, and is better than any of them at their own games.

]]> By: vanderleun https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/23/come-for-the-politics-stay-for-the-dance/#comment-309027 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:48:57 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13033#comment-309027 I mean just imagine Newt doing that dance with those hula hoops and…… Oh gawd no. Forget I said it.

]]> By: vanderleun https://thenewneo.com/2012/01/23/come-for-the-politics-stay-for-the-dance/#comment-309025 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:46:25 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=13033#comment-309025 You call those dances and ballets? Phoo! Now this is a dance and it also has hula hoops in it to make it extra special.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztXmzMvSXZ0

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