Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federal Judge Reynier J. Wortendyke sentenced De Angelis to ten years in prison-but with a surprising twist. Invoking a new section of the federal criminal code, he turned De Angelis over to the personal custody of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. FBI agents will continue to question De Angelis about his tangled affairs. In August, U.S. Director of Prisons Myrl Alexander will report to the judge and 1) affirm the sentence, 2) suggest a reduction, or 3) recommend that De Angelis be put on probation immediately. If he cooperates in answering the many riddles that remain, he could...
...punch was taught to him by a darkface comedian named Stepin Fetchit, who learned it from Jack Johnson, first of the great Negro champions. Said Clay: "It's a chop, so fast you can't see it. It's karate. It's got a twist to it. Just one does...
...again, to say only that he calls up the child murderer with a twist of the thumb is to overlook his more substantial accomplishment. He's on stage the length of the play, and never falters. He works well with the succession of characters who confront him. And he has the finesse not to waste himself in the early scenes. I only caught on to a few of his bits at the very...
From Noise to Style. The twist did not seem like much of an invention at the time. The participant merely planted his feet opposite his partner, started churning his arms as if shadowboxing, while rotating his hips like a girl trying to wriggle out of a tight girdle. But it transformed rock 'n' roll from a noise on the transistor radio into a teen-age style. For the first time since the decline of the jitterbug, teen-agers had a new dance, and soon, at Manhattan's Peppermint Lounge, the famous and near famous discovered its uninhibited joys. Fashion reacted...
Glazed Reverie. The Freddie is the latest of scores of new dances that have spun off the twist. The pelvis is crucial. If it swings from side to side, that's the twist, and the twist is now as dead as the big apple. If it bumps and wiggles, that's the frug (pronounced froog). The rest are all charades. The dog, for example, is a slow-motion jerk (known in less erudite circles as the bump and grind), which is a slow-motion frug. Add a backstroke arm motion to the frug and you have the swim...