Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cottle found that middle-class dancing is characterized by "intimate aloneness," particularly in the woman. "Dressed in tight fitting stretch pants and sweater, she stations herself in a self-appointed precinct and moves to the delight of her partner and audience ... slowly undulating beneath soft lights, hands together behind her head, eyes closed, and sensuously involved in her private excitation...
...lopsided outcome had been all but preordained. Waner, 52, a diligent, longtime Republican precinct captain, was little known to the public. He re mained all but unrecognized this year as he funneled $100,000 of his own money into a woefully underfunded campaign...
...backs up and repeats and runs into the bathroom to spit. He has no speech defect except an uncontrollable urge to be heard right now." The Clays have had a stormy marriage, and most family members believe that their battles, which often were refereed at the local police precinct in Louisville, contributed to young Cassius' wavering hold on his emotions. Today, mother and father hold court in a trim bungalow in Louisville. In the driveway stand two castoff Cadillacs from Cassius, "His" and "Hers." Odessa still tries to keep a semblance of cool around the house, while Old Cassius...
...Japanese cities are aswarm with cars. Tokyo residents may not buy a car unless they can prove that they have a place to park it. In Tokyo districts already choked by industrial air pollution, traffic cops counter the effects of auto-exhaust fumes by breathing bottled oxygen kept at precinct stations. Speaking of the market-though it could apply to the atmosphere as well-Nissan's Kawamata says that "the ceiling is not even in sight...
...Romney-as at least a pre-convention symbol of G.O.P. moderation if not necessarily as the moderates' most-wanted candidate. The Governors' blunt advice to Romney, whom they consider too impressed by polls and favorable publicity: he can win the nomination only by working hard from the precinct level up, by getting some first-rate political tacticians on his staff and by not talking too much too soon. Once more New York's Rockefeller summed up the situation succinctly. "George," he said, "you've got to get organized...