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What has true cowboys like Levi perplexed is a craze moving like a prairie 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scoot Your Booty! | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...LIVING: Honky-Tonk Stomping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...popular lecturer in political economy at Harvard; as a best-selling and prolific author and essayist, television commentator and corporate consultant. Built like a jockey (4 ft. 10 in. and wiry) and bursting with humor and energy, Reich could always attract and hold an audience, even when playing honky-tonk piano for friends on weekends. And for the past 24 years, he has won some of his loudest applause from a friend named Bill Clinton, who campaigned for the White House on an economic plan framed around Reich's ideas for creating good American jobs in the new global economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's People: Robert Reich | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...rewriting the rules and changing the definitions. On this collection, It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) is followed by the good-times raunch of Blueberry Hill, and Elvis is right at home in both. He was, and remains, the high priest of the holy honky-tonk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The King's Ransom | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...dose of rock -- that makes most of this new group sound like Sunday choristers. Carter (part of the legendary Carter family) is a kind of roots rebel and hard to pin down, but last year's I Fell in Love was her breakthrough hit -- Sylvia Plath at the honky-tonk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Garth Brooks: Friends In Low Places | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

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