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Jerk, Dog, Swim & Frug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 4, 1965 | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...Honestly, if one more finky psychiatrist tries to tell us why we do the frug, the monkey, etc., we'll go off our nut. KERRY-JEAN LANDRY PAM GILMORE Gorham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 4, 1965 | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...have a feeling of disgust for middle-age people doing dances like the frug or jerk. We have not as yet invaded their "adults only" world, so please, if you can't give us anything to grow into, kindly leave us something to grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 28, 1965 | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: The Sound of the Sixties | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: The Sound of the Sixties | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

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