Word: jiving
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...that Mom Harvard is out of touch with the mainstream of American education, he probably also realizes that if his and Rosovsky's new statement of purposes and aims is really going to have an enormous impact, it'll really have to be revolutionary and not more of this jive curriculum reform. The prexy and the dean have been pretty close-mouthed about what they have in mind for the overhaul of the system, but if you just contemplate the depths of understanding of economics Bok displayed in his talk to the Republicans, it's hard not to conclude that...
...moving and juking. When you're facing a linebacker you just wiggle your body, watch him go off in one direction and you take off in the other." If all the speed and twisting can be boiled down to one move, it is the "okey-doke." In the jive patter that Simpson sometimes favors, that is the split-second change of direction that makes him unique. "My game is to juke the tough guys," he says. "I put the okeydoke on them, just bounce around and look for daylight. No one is going...
...York debut, hard on the spike heels of their hit album, simply titled The Pointer Sisters. "We're not rhythm and blues or jazz. We're a new category−variety," declared Ruth, the oldest of the four daughters of an Oakland preacher. The quartet mixed jive talk with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross-like jazz and performed some marvelously energetic and ornate scat that called down visions of Cab Galloway...
...Jive and the quest for big action have been Bobby's game since his earliest days in Los Angeles. How did he get that way? Does anyone really know if there is a real Bobby Riggs to stand up? Possibly not. Riggs is a persona constantly reinventing himself. Other men, like Hemingway and Waugh, have done that, but with more substance and perspective. It is arguable whether anyone -including his ex-wives, whose views of him run counter to contemporary mythology-has ever really known him. That figures. Someone who can spring forth as a full-blown pop hero...
...then un abashedly malign, he enforced the illusion that the insulted had come to vengeance." The language is accurate enough in its grand way, but eventually the reader cares less about the defendants than about the author, gesticulating here and there in a peculiar kind of 18th century jive...