Word: frug
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...that his life is all fox trot and froth (he has yet to learn to frug). Magazines besiege him for articles, TV producers beg him to open his mind before the big eye, colleges beseech him to lecture. Reporters solicit his opinions on all manner of subjects, making him sometimes sound like Instant Delphi...
...blast for charity-no drawings, no door prizes, no speeches. Just dancing and plenty of it. All of which was fine by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, 58, who cheered: "This is one of the nicest I've been to." Alas, Fowler felt constrained to sit out the frugs and watusis. Remember those undignified pictures they took last February when he did a warm frug at a party with Carol Channing? "I'm just like Lindbergh," sighed Fowler. "Made one flight, became famous and quit...
...comfortable about the situation. At the play's end true love is rewarded, and the greed, lechery and feigning of feeling which have been smirked at as the keystones of Congreve's society are taken almost seriously and punished. Righteous sons rebuke their fathers and everybody does a curtain frug...
...characters) Valentine, though a rake in the past, is now the man free of the life of "continued affectation" which surrounds him. In the last scene, his sincerity and sobriety provide the one dramatic moment of the Charles production which is not just funny. Then everybody starts the frug. Like the show itself, the dance entertains, but it makes Congreve's quiet thrust at meaning pointless. I would have thought the one thing that a repertory company might have learned from modern drama is to take comedy just a little seriously...
Despite the best efforts of the party, Moscow has been invaded by the twist, the frug and almost every other deca dent dance step devised in the West...