Word: juking
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...Successor. During a concert in Birmingham in 1956, five white men leaped onto the stage and knocked him down. Cole was unhurt. That is, until later, when the Negro press scalded him "for kneeling before the throne of Jim Crow" by playing before a segregated audience. In Harlem, some juke joints ceremoniously smashed his records. "I'm an entertainer," he answered, "not a politician. I'm crusading in my own way. I feel I can help ease the tension by gaining the respect of both races all over the country...
...only interest is broads ("If I skip one night, I wake up with such a headache"). Unwilling to peddle his own wife (Felicia Farr) along with his tunes, Walston drives her away and brings home a substitute, Kim Novak, who heads the navel armada at a local juke joint known as the Belly Button. Through a series of vinsavory miscalculations, punctuated by a parrot that squawks "Bang! Bang!" all too frequently, Martin gets the wife, the song plugger gets Kim, and Kim gets...
...account of how it feels to be a high school dropout, a page of verse composed by an 18-year-old girl, a random assortment of teenage views on public school integration. All this may not have looked like serious competition to the call of the juke joint, but the first run of 5,000 copies sold briskly at 25? each...
...some of the toughest juveniles in England, turning them away from delinquency and toward something that Music describes as "better than beating up old ladies with bicycle chains." MODERN LIVING spots another trend in entertainment-the rise in the U.S. of the discotheque, a highbrow version of the juke joint where dancing Americans are doing the Bug, the Wobble, the Push, the Pop.ye, the Barrel and other exercises...
...most fashionable dancing these days is done at a discotheque, which is really nothing but a highbrow version of a juke joint plus a disk jockey. But this simple formula and the dancing that goes with it is giving international night life its newest sights and sounds...