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...feels that the dance is too complex for definition, but an executive of the Fred Astaire Dance Studios describes it easily as "two basic movements, a swinging from side to side and a style of truckin' done in half time, with infinite variations." At any rate, the stomp was on and the handkerchiefs were out. Skirts, which are worn sin-tight at the Palladium, were double-sewn at the seams. Up to 350 panting pachangueros crowded into the hall's weekly dance classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jukebox: Cuba's Revenge | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...most of them priced between $9 and $10 for a package covering about 2,500 sq. ft.: Scott's Halts, Dow's Crab Grass Killer, Vaughan's Pre-Kill, Pax's Crabgrass and Soil Pest Control, Swift's Rid; others, presumably with names like Stomp, Unconditional Surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garden: Weed 'Em & Reap | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...business playing this game. That shot just won't go in." Says Schayes: "I can sense when we've got a team licked. There's a little drooping of the shoulders, a little glassy look in the eye. When you see that, you try to stomp on him and keep him down. Eighty percent of the guys can't come back. Twenty percent can-they're the Pettits, the Robertsons, the Baylors and the Cousys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Graceful Giants | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...show has its palpable good points -for a starter, George Abbott's direction. When the scarlet ladies, decked out by Cecil Beaton with inspired bad taste, stomp the stage, celebrate the flesh and sneer at the clergy, Tenderloin has a fleering, gamy exuberance. Again, when the stage rocks with the round-dance economics of How the Money Changes Hands, or Ron Husmann rolls out The Picture of Happiness, there is sass and to spare. Jerry Bock's score is better than average, and the Sheldon Harnick lyrics are better than the score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Oct. 31, 1960 | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...Soviet borders. "You send ships along our coasts and planes over Alaska," snapped Thompson. "We aren't interested in Alaska," said Khrushchev piously and then, abruptly, shifted to a renewal of his familiar de mand for a U.S. apology over the U-2 incident. Gesturing as if to stomp on Ambassador Thompson's foot, he declared: "If I step on your foot, you expect me to apologize. Why didn't you apologize for the U2? If you are strong, you can afford to apologize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Storm at Sea | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

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