Word: jitterbugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insect combo embellished the Spiro sound with a contrapuntal hum. It was all bloody romantic, and when a paddle-wheeler, the latest O'Shea expansion, came to berth with 100 or so diners aboard, they simply fell to working off their meals aerobically: a waltz to warm up, a jitterbug for the cardiovascular good, a waltz to cool down. "I never cared for any other kind of music," said a woman of some years named Barbara Rudolph, "and I never had a husband who did either." Just then she was dipped by Myron Perlstine, who smiled despite the tune, which...
...critical comments about George Bush last week were triggered by his clumsy jitterbug over whether plummeting oil prices were endangering America's national security and financial health. The furor followed him throughout his ten-day visit to Saudi Arabia and three other Arab nations. Although his Administration supporters tried to quiet the political uproar, Bush's potential rivals for the 1988 nomination helped keep him on the hot seat. "I certainly think it's a mistake to go to the Saudis for help to firm up the price of oil," New York Congressman Jack Kemp told the Buffalo News. Asked...
Mather House Dance: jazz, swing, foxtrot, waltz and jitterbug, featuring Harvard University Jazz Band, Mather House Dining Hall, Harvard, Saturday...
...know what it's like to be ugly and still feel beautiful." An angel-faced teen-age boy, whose ardor for Fascism amounts almost to sexual hysteria, is shot by some of the villagers he tried to kill; seeing this, his Fascist father flies into a fatal jitterbug of despair, burrowing his head into the hard earth. Cecilia, at six the youngest of the fleeing villagers, finds the ordeal a delicious, dangerous game, like hopscotching through a minefield...
...float around the room in time-polished two-step, while the younger couples try to avoid each other's toes. But when Cole Porter gives way to rock 'n' roll, it is the older group that looks a tad silly dusting off their versions of the jitterbug, while the baby boomers twitch admirably to the new music...