Word: cha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just past midnight. The 300 guests have emerged from the gaily trimmed dining tents, and are now doing the cha cha cha on the wooden dance floor that covers part of the lawn. A champagne fountain burbles into the hollow-stem crystalware. The hostess snuggles her mink stole over her airy Howard Greer original. The host pats his cummerbund and stares expansively at his Thunderbird convertible in the drive. Then he surveys the whole scene and realizes that he is not the master of a blessed thing he surveys. The tents, the chairs, the band, the dance floor, the artificial...
Then a second band broke into a number that goes, "Indonesia is free-cha cha cha." Sukarno grabbed Nina Khrushchev for a partner. Nikita leaped up himself, waggled through a few steps, took a bongo drum and thumped it for a while. Then he seized Sukarno's silverheaded marshal's baton and began leading the band. Sukarno said he would expect some new Soviet credits in return...
...taller, seven years older, and holder of an M.A. from Cambridge. Hussein got to know Toni at go-cart races in Amman, and both are fond of fast cars, planes and dancing. "Toni," said a friend, "is not very anything. She's a simple, gay girl who will cha-cha-cha with him when the day's state cares are over...
Ostrow and Rome are, naturally, wrong. Society Bandleader Lester Lanin noticed not long ago that the well-bred teen-agers at his deb parties had begun to ask him to play the Mr. Clean song (composer: Adman Thomas Cadden) or the Newport cigarette cha cha cha. Last week Lanin, who has made a career of knowing where the money is, announced the title of his next long-playing record: Lester Lanin on Madison Avenue, jingle tunes without words, played at our-song tempo...
...Auntie sits in the parlor listening to French art songs on the phonograph. They sound, she says, "a little like the cha cha cha...