June 16, 1987 20 June (continued) "musica romantica." Ticos seem to have two speeds, one of which in comparison to guigo dancing is faster but w/ less lateral movements of the arms and legs - more ritualized. The other is extremely slow, and a strange sort of two-step. Both my speeds are in between them! The custom is that males ask women to dance and they rarely refuse. Although regios like this, Carmen told me, the men tend to be especially pushy and expectant, and to dance especially physically. One couple stood out by their apparel & dancing: he rather typical, w/ shirt open to the waist except for clean dress boots worn over pants like a horseman. She wore a bright red pant suit, black boots, and a small black, sort of modified bowler hat. They danced round the whole room, always arms around each other, and the ticos in our group clearly considered them a little unusual. Carmen and I decided independently that she had a certain resemblance in facial features to an Andean indian, a nice aspect of the evening. That there was quite a mix - La Selva researchers, tics and guigo j ticos I knew in past years also live