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...After Casino Royale was published to good reviews in 1953, Fleming produced a book a year, delighting his fans with hilariously preposterous plots hardly meant to be taken seriously. Even before the first Bond movie, Dr. No, came out in 1961, the James Bond cult had snowballed into a craze. Fleming's books have been translated into ten languages and had an estimated world sale of 18 million...
...DANCE CRAZE (Capitol) is a history seminar, with laconic directions on the jacket for twelve dances ranging from the waltz (played by Guy Lombardo) to the black bottom (Pee Wee Hunt), the calypso (Lord Flea), the tango (Nelson Riddle), and the creep (Stan Kenton). Giving instructions for the Charleston was too difficult and the jacket writer gave up, suggesting, Ask your mother...
...know Clay, and hold no especial brief for him, but I insist that as a freeborn American citizen he has the right to associate himself with any group, even if they do not believe in the current craze to utilize the federal power to compel race mixing in every area of life. We have come to a pretty pass in this country, where a man who conscientiously believes in separation of the races is to be penalized and denied his rights on account of his beliefs...
...sado-masochistic mehod is a remnant of the do-it-yourself craze. The masochist uses small earrings with a spring which can be adjusted to vary the amount of pressure on the ear. By clipping on these earrings and adjusting the springs, the masochist can pierce her own ears at her own rate of speed. A problem may arise, however, if the earrings are knocked awry during sleep; a piercee might awaken to find that the holes in her two ears don't match...
Relax all over, put on a deadpan face, then you swing your hips and start twitching. Sounds like the twist? Wrong, man. That's the blues, a new British dance craze that comes complete with an added fillip. In one step, hands are clasped behind the back, and the dancer bends slightly forward. The brief lean is called the Philip, since it springs from the Duke of Edinburgh's inevitable hands -clasped -to -the - rear, trunk -inclined stance two steps behind the Queen. Says one London blues-Philip adept: "You just stand there...