Tangoing Cheek to Cheek for 3 Minutes in the Park
It was a sultry 6 p.m. in Central Park, and over by the 1872 Shakespeare
statue at Literary Walk, melancholy rhythms spilled from two speakers propped up on park benches.
Courtenay Nugent rose. He asked Fran Beaumont to dance. There they
were: the two it took to tango.
They moved sensually across the asphalt pavers, counterclockwise around
the monument, under a coquettish breeze and what was to become a limitless
starry sky and an oblong moon. As dozens of onlookers watched over the next
three hours, about 50 couples swayed to the steps of the dance that has been
called a three-minute love affair.
The New York Times played this article front and center on their home page Friday. It's amazingly refreshing to know that one of the remaining bastions of journalism can find room for amazing writing and intriguing storytelling...WITHOUT squirreling it away in the recess of its web pages.
Thank you, NYTimes.com Now if only the rest of the journalistic world could follow suit.
2 comments:
yeah, that's some nice writing. journalism needs more of that.
You don't read stuff like that in the papers, usually. Good show!
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