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...like a Tennessee mountaineer. The prince did it twice on a private tour of the U.S.-once at the New York World's Fair, where he do-si-doed into a square-dance demonstration, again in Philadelphia when he overheard the Delaware Valley Square Dance Association holding a hoedown in the ballroom of his hotel. But at the mention of the frug or Watusi, the prince winces a bit: "I do not do these dances, and it is not for me to say too hastily whether they are good...
November is Country Music Month. Not exactly heart-pounding news-except in Nashville, Tenn., where it is cause for an annual whoop-'n'-holler hoedown called the Country Music Festival. Hundreds of back-hill singers and strummers, sporting mail-order toupees and $300 hand-tooled boots, turn out for the event, and aspiring singers corner recording producers in elevators for impromptu auditions...
...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...