Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buttoning and frog fasteners down the front. The look, Adolfo allows, "is very sexy. It is cut to show the fanny, and if you have a little tummy, it shows that too. Men like it very much." So does the Duchess of Windsor, who was carried away by a polka-dotted sheath at an Adolfo show...
...recent years Latin music programs have been smash hits at New York's Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium. There is an embryonic curiosity about salsa on the pop scene too, among fans who are no longer charmed by recycled golden oldies-Bobby Vinton's Beer Barrel Polka, for example-or who prefer music that is spicy rather than electronically spacy. In March, salsa playing appeared on Don Kirschner's TV rock show. New York's progressive music radio stations WQIV-FM and WNEW-FM have started programming the salsa sound...
...cold-war farce, Horst Bucholz was held captive by ruthless commissars intent on prying secret information out of him. He resisted, at least initially. Then the villains immured him in a room with a phonograph that kept playing over and over It Was an Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. His will frayed, his sanity shot, Bucholz broke...
Though Charach's evidence is certainly less substantive than the material in the J.F.K. case, he does show fairly well that the likelihood of Sirhan having acted alone is very small. Who was the woman in the polka-dot dress who appears in photographs of the assassination scene, and who was identified as having been seen with Sirhan earlier in the week? Who is the man who mounts the platform as Kennedy is concluding his victory speech, looks around cautiously, signals to someone in the audience, and then departs? No one in the Kennedy entourage could identify him, security around...
...strewn in the glowering breeze. The button sellers offer their indulgences. Their most popular model is the "March Against Racism" sold to defray the organizers' costs. It is in the same black and green color scheme as their banners and has a logo with six white, eight black, six polka dotted, and a few incomplete heads. If costs a dollar. There are also two black button models. One is a $.2 bargain, the other is larger and more expensive, though its price seems to fluctuate as the day wears...