Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fire from country honky-tonks into yuppie nightspots across America: country- line dancing. A descendant of the conga line and the Harlem Hustle, line dancing lets any number join in on a series of dips, kicks and turns, under names like Walkin' Wazi, Boot Scootin' Boogie, Tush Push, Neon Moon and Honky- Tonk Stomp...
HERE'S A SPLASHY, SWAGGERING CRIME novel with a lot of what would be chest hair and gold chains if it were a human male instead of a book. But Robert Ferrigno's THE CHESHIRE MOON (Morrow; $20) is just mirror tough; it sneaks a glance at itself too often, likes what it sees too much. Quinn, the hero, is supposed to be a stressed-out investigative reporter; and since this is Los Angeles, he's got a bigfoot Jeep with a camo paint job (there's a plot, but first things first) and a drop-dead Japanese-American photog...
...appears that the regularity of Earth's seasons is a lucky accident, a side effect of the moon. New computer simulations reported in Science and ; Nature have shown that the tilt of a planet like Mars, which has no large moon, will wobble dramatically over periods of a few million years. The gravitational influence of Earth's moon, by contrast, stabilizes our planet. So if life never arose on the Red Planet, one reason may be lack of a suitable satellite...
...Well, eight of he 10 of us are on the football team, so it was hard to throw parties in the fall," says Je Moon, '93, member of the College's best-known suite. "We've thrown four [parties] already; how much do people expect? We've got to clean the place our [after parties]. I guess that makes me sound like a party popular.... everyone assumes we'll throw parties...
...Moon adds that he and his roommates are members of final clubs and spend a good deal of their time there...