The first time I heard Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" was at a classical music appreciation workshop at Rutgers. The instructor, a Music Professor, played a clip from the Coen brothers' "The Hudsucker Proxy" that featured a creative interpretation of the history of the hula hoop, one of the simplest toys ever sold and marketed-a hollow ring that can be twirled around the waist while performing a motion similar to that of a Hula dancer.
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