Word: cancan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...R.S.V.P.s. A crowd of 200,000 turned out happily on the Place de la Concorde to dance in the street, watch fireworks, and cheer Fernandel, Juliette Greco, the cancan line of the Moulin Rouge. Some of the old squabbles were revived: the Communists and Socialists boycotted many of the ceremonies. But once again De Gaulle rose above all that. In his Hotel de Ville speech, he sounded the suitable notes of glory, but he also dared to chill his listeners with a reference to how and why France had fallen in the first place...
PEPSI-COLA. The boat ride winds through the canals of Walt Disney's doll land, past a tipsy Tower of Pisa, the Taj Mahal and Swiss Alps, while his prodigious puppets-leprechauns, sheiks, Cossacks, cancan dancers and Dutch boys and girls-sing and sway to beat the band...
PEPSI-COLA. A water jet whips through a Disney dollhouse filled with belly dancers, French cancan girls. Cossacks and slinky Egyptian beauties, singing, twisting and kicking like kwazy...
PEPSI-COLA. A gallimaufry of Walt Disney's latest prodigious puppets, which also perk up the pavilions of Ford, General Electric and Illinois. Here a waterjet whips through a dreamland dollhouse filled with belly dancers, French cancan girls, Cossacks and slinky Egyptian beauties, singing, twisting and kicking like crazy...
...Wonders. Disney's realistic robots, in fact, stalk the fair. Pepsi-Cola has about 350 of them, doll-size, flanking a boat ride that children seem to like more than anything else. Scottish dolls climb steep plaid mountains, Iranian dolls fly on Persian carpets, and French dolls cancan. The dolls sing an original tune about the cohesion of the peoples of the world that might have been composed by Wendell Willkie...