Word: frug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elmayer, the 80-year-old ex-cavalry officer who runs Vienna's most famous dancing school, still teaches the Viennese waltz to 2,000 gawky, white-gloved teen-agers a week ("the harmony of the waltz brings harmony into our lives"), his curriculum also includes the twist, slop, frug and Watusi...
...Dame Margot Fonteyn, Truman Capote, Baby Jane Holzer, Sammy Davis Jr., ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, Carol Channing, Peter Lawford, Tennessee Williams and Oleg Cassini mix it up with the hip twitchers. Both New York Senators?Jacob Javits and his wife Marion ("My husband and I just love to frug"), and Bobby Kennedy and Ethel ("I can't believe all that action on such a small floor")?make the discotheque scene. Jackie Kennedy, on her occasional visits to Il Mio, does a sedate version of the frug. Adlai Stevenson, the Maharani of Baroda, and the Duke and Duchess...
...Freddie is the latest of scores of new dances that have spun off the twist. The pelvis is crucial. If it swings from side to side, that's the twist, and the twist is now as dead as the big apple. If it bumps and wiggles, that's the frug (pronounced froog). The rest are all charades. The dog, for example, is a slow-motion jerk (known in less erudite circles as the bump and grind), which is a slow-motion frug. Add a backstroke arm motion to the frug and you have the swim; add a tree-climbing motion...
...Nichols and Rex Harrison. It is named not for the once and future king, but for Beatle George Harrison, who, when asked in A Hard Day's Night about his haircut, replied: "I call it Arthur." Sybil, it also turns out, is a sort of Guinevere of the frug. Not that there was any space to spare on opening night, for even a few of the stockholders couldn't writhe their...
Panting Hostesses. In Manhattan, Nureyev was the man of the hour, and he relished every minute of it. At a post-performance party, he exuberantly danced the watusi and the frug with Fonteyn, soundly bussed one of the pretty girls from the corps de ballet. Hostesses panted for his presence. Because of rehearsal commitments, he had to turn down a dinner invitation from Jackie Kennedy (see MODERN LIVING...