Word: jerks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jerk, Dog, Swim & Frug
...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...
...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 and you have the monkey. Stick your thumbs in your ears and it's the mouse...
...true that we are on the "fringe of a golden era in education," but is it really worth it if the people produced during such an era are like the pseudo-intellectual morons that you interviewed-such as the jerk who wants to make a more meaningful person out of his mother...
...going to talk about sex, are we?" says a blond kid in horn-rims, yawning. The latest dance is the jerk: partners face each other three feet apart, then languorously sway their upper spine and arms while rhythmically punctuating the undulations with a savage pelvic thrust...