Word: foxtrot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imagery was the title tune of their big 1965 album, which also had the gentleness of April Come She Will. Two of the new songs, On the Strip and Mrs. Robinson, are bright and bouncy, but the others, Sun-porch Cha-cha-cha, The Folks and The Singleman Party Foxtrot, don't quite measure...
...weeks, Hausfrauen all over West Germany have been practicing Hofknickse (curtsies). At the Munich mint, eight gold commemorative coins had been struck; a Cologne record company brought out The Queen Elizabeth Foxtrot. In Bonn, 15,000 champagne glasses were ordered, and mobile lavatories were trundled in from Cologne for a state reception for 2,500 at Augustusburg Castle. It was all part of the feverish preparations for the eleven-day, 1,200-mile tour by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of ten West German cities, the first state visit by a reigning British monarch since Edward...
...mistake. The Nigerian tribes she has come to study want to be left alone, of course. Their good luck is to have an English district officer who wants the same thing. Bewsher is a typical Gary character-humane, eccentric, ready with the bottle, and just as ready to foxtrot in the midst of a mission compound. He handles his native charges with a nice mixture of cajolery, flattery and big-daddy scolding. His mistake is in thinking that because he is on their side, they are on his. The natives see only that Bewsher is white; to them...
...teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists of this mad litany, set to a foxtrot tempo...