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  • From a novel set (mostly) in Buenos Aires in 1913-1920:

    Their dancing was just as prim: their feet dutifully stepped back or to the side in response to the man's moves, but rarely attempted a gancho, rarely slid a calf between a man's legs—an unseemly act—and even when they did it was a quick and timid motion, obscured by floor-length skirts.
    Carolina de Robertis, The Gods of Tango (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), p. 215

    September 4, 2016