Word: rumbas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...
...muleback, royal teen-agers hacked around like any other kids, squirting each other with pop, staging impromptu Olympic games in ancient stadia and rewarding winners with stolen kisses. In the evening there were movies, and sometimes all hands joined to practice the mambo and the rumba, with Frederika easily carrying away top dancing honors. While the youngsters gulped gallons of Coca-Cola, their elders forsook champagne in favor of solider Scotch. At the end of one hilarious evening, some of the more enthusiastic princelings tossed their cousin Christian of Hanover into the ship's swimming pool fully clad, then...
According to one theory, mambo is an inevitable phase of cultural evolution, a resounding response to a major need Explains Darwin-minded Reporter Ed Wallace in the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "The rumba broke up the crowd of doleful listeners who had begun to accumulate like barnacles around the bandstand; it got people back on the dance floor.' The rumba came along just as dancers were becoming listeners. Then, when the kick of the rumba was beginning to wane, along came the mambo and eeuugghh! we're gone again...
...smooth!" says the first of them (Shawn Smith), and Quinn begins to rumba toward a sofa, gently oscillating her pelvic region with a towel. "Don't press your luck," warns the second (Mary Ellen Kay), but it is not his luck that Anthony presses...
...instructress, one Ellen Keene, told him he showed real promise, and John vowed to win his Arthur Murray bronze medal. All he had to do, after all, was learn the 60 different steps used in the fox trot, swing, tango, waltz, samba, rumba and mambo. After his hundredth hour on the floor, John decided to buy four Arthur Murray life memberships - they only cost $7,650 apiece, and together they guaranteed him 4,000 hours of instruction and after that, eight hours of dancing a month for life. "It's like a kind of insurance," he explained. "Dancing...