Caribbean dance

Usage examples of merengue.

Carlos Lopez, the handsome Spanish undercover officer posing as the big shot in the Cuban gang, sat formally in a leather-upholstered chair, dressed to the nines, like a merengue bandleader waiting to go on.

The place looked sensational, as always, with balloons and strolling guitarists, an enormous buffet supper, and a merengue band.

Then the music started and a merengue instructor appeared, as if by magic, and took me by the hand.

Before I knew it, I was lined up with thirty other white guys, learning the merengue from an effeminate Venezuelan named Jorge.

Birdland variety, at cabana clubs, who dances the merengue with the proper hip movements, whose person is all one, the same person.

From time to time she listened to the news to find out what was going on in the world, and on the few occasions when she was alone in the house she would turn the volume very low and listen to distant, clear merengues from Santo Domingo and plenas from Puerto Rico.

Jose carried around a coffee can which upside down served to rattle off their raving merengues or baions on, and hollow side up to receive from an appreciative audience pennies, transit tokens, chewing gum, spit.

Instead of the radio merengues, Gladys now sang an endless repertoire of Christmas carols: Glo-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohhOh-oh-oh-oh-ohhRia!

At last, he could remember her as she should be remembered, her strong lithe body in his arms as they merengued across the Shark Bar's dance floor.