Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing''-or so the narrator says. Les amoureux then go back to her room, and with the sound track blaring Brahms (a sextet, naturally) and the camera calmly watching almost everything that happens, they make passionate and explicitly French love 1) in her bed, 2) in the bathtub, 3) back in bed again. Whereupon the wife, without a second's hesitation or a backward glance, walks out on her husband, her former lover and her small daughter. The couple simply pile into his car and drive off into the dawn. "But," the narration concludes in tones...
...shaking my chemise." Maryanna explained to a popeyed customer, but her pronunciation was a little awk ward, and the shimmy got its name. World War I had just ended, and the new dance and the girl who invented it sluiced east ward toward Broadway on a rising tide of bathtub gin and needled beer. By then, Maryanna had become Mary Gray. But Red Hot Mamma Sophie Tucker caught her act and told her that Mary was no handle for a hoofer. Sophie looked at the spun-gold hair above the lithe, slim shape and decreed that Mary should be Gilda...