Word: twist
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...daughter's suggestion, Halsman took along a twist record to give to Belgium's Queen Fabiola, on the theory that royal reserve might keep the palace from sending out for one on their own. An interested observer to the picture taking was King Baudouin, an enthusiastic amateur photographer who adjusted his wife's necklace so that it would photograph better, and suggested that she wear a white mink stole...
...loves orchids and sables, pilots a fast Lancia. She writhes with impatience at official occasions when her position restrains her from doing the twist. Asked her opinion of France's then Premier Michel Debré after the Ivory Coast's Independence Day Ball, Thérèse allowed that "He's nice," but added that "he doesn't cha cha half as well" as another statesman at the party. Frenchmen, who call her the Ivory One and see her as the forerunner of a new, Europe-influenced African woman, delight in her exuberant, ultrafeminine...
Though it may seem odd in a country embroidered with stereophonic phonographs and power-braked convertibles, choreographed for the twist and headed for outer space, square dancing is more popular than ever...
...Taste of Honey. Playwright Shelagh Delaney's story of a wise child in Lancashire slums, who knows her own mother and is fearlessly determined to know herself. Rita Tushingham makes the heroine a kind of Oliver Twist in a maternity dress...
...gambols through the tango, the twist, and an agitated bit of neo-'20s dance nonsense called "the kangaroo." After his appearance in this wan swan song of the Broadway season, Cesare Siepi can always go back to the Met; Karnilova will dance again. In Rome's palmier days, the rest of Bravo Giovanni would have been thrown to the lions...