Word: hoedown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minimum per person in nightclubs with two-bit floor shows. Atlantic Citians, for their part, complained just as bitterly that the delegates were small tippers, slow spenders and big gripers. They had some reason to complain. Atlantic City had paid the Democratic Party $625,000 to hold its hoedown there...
Today there is as much steam as ever-and more partners. Some 1,000,000 serious square-dance buffs do-se-do in the U.S., and no one knows how many more people there are who are simply ready for a hoedown any old time. On village greens, in country barns, school gymnasiums and palatial estates (including the Palm Beach mansion of Post Toasties Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post Hutton Davies May) the grand-right-and-lefts go on all year long...
...movie must. Occasionally, a scene is boring, but usually because it intends to suggest the tedium of stagnation, the sameness of life and death in the viscous depths of hopelessness. Occasionally, as in the horrific climax, the picture is crudely exciting. And in one brief episode, a hilarious Oriental hoedown in which four flophouse characters do what looks like a medieval Japanese version of the Twist, Kurosawa is so far out the rickshas don't run there any more...
...hoedown on a harpsichord may appeal to pop fans, but it pains oldtime C. & W. lovers: Nashville's famed Grand Ole Opry radio show still frowns on the use of any instrument other than a fiddle or guitar on its stage. The unsentimental recordmakers, on the other hand, argue that whatever the instrumentation, the essence of C. & W. has been retained in what they like to call the "Nashville Sound." As nearly as anybody can define it, the Sound is the byproduct of musical illiteracy. "In New York and Los Ange-les," says Columbia Records' Don Law, "they let their...