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...over each wheel is a springlike rubber cylinder filled with a "cocktail" of water and antifreeze. Thin tubes connect the front and rear cylinders. When a front wheel hits a bump, the shock compresses the front cylinder, which squeezes the fluid to the rear, expanding the rear cylinder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Riding on Water | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...Stripper (David Rose and Orchestra; M-G-M). A nostalgic salute to burlesque that surprisingly has become a top-selling single without the benefit of leerics. Composer-Conductor Rose's smeary brasses and sizzling cymbals seem to come down the runway in an almost visible bump and grind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...bathroom hilltop ranch house last month, the hard-running gubernatorial aspirant has spent only two nights there. Peppery Julie Nixon, 13, could understand, for she was doing some politicking herself-in the ninth-grade class at Marlborough School. Though she was home in bed on election day with a bump on her head from a wayward softball bat, Julie won. Her post? Vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 18, 1962 | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

Certain actors deserve much better than this show. David Rawle's Mama Tia, for example, proves overpoweringly that men can do anything better than women. Mama Tia has a great Amazon's body and a Tallulah Bankhead voice, and watching her bump and grind out a twisty number called "Razzle-Dazzle" is clearly the evening's treat. Rawle's voice, his enormous toothy smile, and his big cynical eyelids allow him to deliver the flattest sort of lines in a devastatingly funny manner; and he props up whole scenes simply by his presence...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Peace Decorum | 3/22/1962 | See Source »

...things first. Ciji Ware is Gladys the pneumatic secretary; she's the best thing that ever happened to the part. Her "Her Is," to take just a single example (I mean, I could go on all night--stop me if you've heard this before) shows Rindge Tech what bump and grind really means: half a green shirt and those creamy white pants. That's all she's got, and that's all she needs. Bump. Grind...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: The Pajama Game | 3/17/1962 | See Source »

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