Word: twister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Touching the Nerve. Of course, there is as much legend as fact in this image of Johnson, just as there is in his image as an overpowering arm twister. Johnson has a "treatment" all right, but its effectiveness is due neither to brute force nor to Svengalian hypnosis. Johnson simply is better than anybody else at finding and touching the most sensitive nerve a Congressman has-his own self-interest...
...five-man team that visits hot-rod exhibits and rallies around the country, exhibiting five hot rods made from standard Ford autos and sometimes displaying Ford's biggest teaser: a three-eighths scale model of a drag racer designed by Ford stylists and called the Twister, which Ford may one day produce commercially. Soon, Ford intends to market "Cobra kits" that will enable hot rodders to modify standard Ford engines for high-performance events...
...Wizard of Oz (CBS, 6-8 p.m.). For the fifth straight year, as the holiday season approaches, CBS whips up the old twister and brings back the M-G-M movie with Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger and Billie Burke...
Full of beans a top a San Francisco podium, Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler, 67, unwound a 96-piece orchestra in his own three-minute baroque version of The Twist. The white-maned maestro played the score "tempo a la Chubby Checker" after listening to one of the tubby twister's records and checking it with a metronome. Afterward, at a local nightclub to gyre and gimbal a bit himself, Fiedler adjudged the dance craze: "It's authentic primitive Americana, not from Siberia or Laos, I don't think it's physically unattractive either...
...role she has played since 1946, looks refreshingly real - she is middle-aged now and she doesn't try to hide it. Boone looks healthy. Darin looks unhealthy. And there is too much sugar in his Tiffin. As for Ann-Margret, she has the energy of a Texas twister. But Comedian Wally Cox, who plays a judge in the preserves division, brings off the best scene in the picture, a side-busting sequence in which the meek little fellow gets roaring drunk on mincemeat...