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  • n  music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella
  • n  a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons

  • The modern medical name for it is tarantism, after the wild Italian folk dance, the tarantella.
  • It eschews Ken Burnsian still lifes for a tarantella of computer animation, film clips, re-enactments and folk performances, whirling impatiently like the dervishes and dancers it .
  • At first, the audience in Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque was stunned by De Sabata's strange choreography on the podiumhe seemed to be dancing everything from a tarantella to a sabre .
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  • Eugene Hutz in Harp Magazine
    SUPER TARANTA! is a Gogol Bordello proposition to beat global tensions and hysteria by transforming all negative energy into positive, as Tarantella did in its origin,said lead singer Eugene Hutz in a press statement. "Gogol Bordello is...
  • Scott McNealy in InternetNews.com
    And on top of StorageTek, Tarantella and Procom NAS assets, we are assembling all of the pieces in a very integrated and supportable way to go monetize the position we've built here in the first 23, 24 years of Sun's existence,McNealy said.

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