Word: twist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under the trade name Palm-N'-Turn, the new containers are made of plastic and topped with a flexible cap fitted with luglike projections. The lugs fit snugly into notches in the neck of the container. To open one, an adult must press downward with the palm, then twist the cap open while the lugs are free. In recent tests, few children could do this, even when they saw jelly beans inside. Of 1,000,000 of the Palm-N'-Turn containers tested in Ontario, Canada, only 21 caps were pried free...
LATER, the author reminds us of the liberation of American music which occurred around 1954. Elvis Presley started moving his hips, white song writers raided black lyrics to send toned-down versions across the country. Chubby Checker taught the rich how to twist. Today Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin have brought the feeling of soul to white bodies from Boston to Seattle...
Though intriguing, Lifton's thesis is simply a psychiatric twist on similar findings of other China-watchers. It is not new, just considerably more arcane; observers have duly noted similar death rattles in Communist revolutionaries from Marx to Castro...
...coffee house--a night club, circa 1952. They've packed the place with candlelit tables covered with red-checked table cloths, added some polite entertainment (varying from week to week), and filled the lulls with the kind of music our parents danced to before they learned the Twist...
...least one thing can be said for the cover. It suits the spirit of the music inside. The album bristles with the brand of hard, raunchy rock that has helped to establish the Stones as England's most subversive roisterers since Fagin's gang in Oliver Twist.* It also stands in notable contrast to their previous album, Their Satanic Majesties Request, which ventured into the realm of electronic wizardry and psychedelic fantasy charted by the Beatles in Sgt. Pepper. Since that was an alien idiom for the Stones, they sounded pretentious and boring...