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...wonder how these directors can draw so wide a range of wiggle, giggle, and grind out of their females; this director, David Tihmar, has done it splendidly. Pansy (Nicholas Little-field) does a "Slow Twist" which sends all her manufactured hipbones into excruciatingly mock-suggestive spins and slides; Ben Mason as Wholsa Hardy adds a presumably affectionate and completely successful leer to her most innocent remarks; and Toby Walker, if he is not exactly of the Bolshoi, knows both how to spring about and to adopt the listless, tragic pose of the Artburnover at the same time as she seduces...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Tickle Me Pink | 3/14/1963 | See Source »

...forehead, and demand passionate violin-playing until the spittle dried and the note fell off. But all things considered, it is gay enough. At Budapest's Press Ball last week, young men in stovepipe trousers and girls in daringly décolleté dresses performed a writhing twist that onlookers pointed to with a touch of pride as their own "dirty twist." For the monster masked balls that punctuate the season, probably 100,000 costumes will be rented. At some events the men sport tuxedos rented for 120 forints (the average Hungarian earns 1,600 forints a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary: Gay until Tomorrow | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...question the superiority of the Isley Brothers, but the relative merits of Shout and Twist and Shout is a moot point. We shall leave it to our discerning readership to decide

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: 'You Make Me Wanna Shout' | 2/20/1963 | See Source »

...Twist and shout...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: 'You Make Me Wanna Shout' | 2/20/1963 | See Source »

Only "Hold on Baby" saves the Twist and Shout album from total intellectual aridity. The song presents a character delineation next to which Hamlet pales by comparison. The speaker implores...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: 'You Make Me Wanna Shout' | 2/20/1963 | See Source »

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