lounge (v.) to pass (time) in lounging (usually fol. by away or out): to lounge away the afternoon. 1508, from Scot., of uncertain origin, "to lounge about, lie at full length," The noun in the sense of "comfortable drawing room" is first recorded 1881; in the sense of "couch on which one can lie at full length," 1830. Lounge lizard is from 1912, originally in reference to men who hung around in tea rooms to flirt.
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Wednesday, 5 June 2013
a delicate battle
years ago, when i was wee, i saw rudolf nureyev dancing on the tv, a black and white sequence, just him. i'd never seen anything like it, never seen anyone shaped like him , could move like him. wow, i thought, i wish i could grow up to be that. need less to say in the scotland of those days with a father like mine it was never going to happen. and that was before i realised i was too short and most likely, too unbendy.
i never lost that moment when it came to dancers. it's a bittersweet thing - i'm still too short, certainly way too unbendy but now i'm too old as well! but when i watch something like the above i get swept up in all the possibility of human movement.
it's a half hour. get a cup of tea, sit down and immerse yourself....
didn't manage the cup a tea, but took a gamble that my 2 yr old would watch with me, a dangerous exercise, since he insisted on joining in, trying out the lifts etc, some of them weren't that far from our usual nappy struggles anyway :-)
ReplyDeleteah, toddler ballet. happy days!
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