Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legged Willy Elmayer, the 80-year-old ex-cavalry officer who runs Vienna's most famous dancing school, still teaches the Viennese waltz to 2,000 gawky, white-gloved teen-agers a week ("the harmony of the waltz brings harmony into our lives"), his curriculum also includes the twist, slop, frug and Watusi...
...believe all that action on such a small floor")?make the discotheque scene. Jackie Kennedy, on her occasional visits to Il Mio, does a sedate version of the frug. Adlai Stevenson, the Maharani of Baroda, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor have not progressed much beyond the twist, but Walter Cronkite's variations on the frug are a wonder to behold...
...didn't. Instead, rock 'n' roll did. Rejuvenation came in 1960 on the wings of a king-sized twister named Chubby Checker. A onetime Philadelphia chicken plucker, Chubby threw his tubby hips into high gear, and issued an invitation: "C'mon, baby, let's do the twist...
...have in our midst a small band of racial agitators, non-native to Boston, and a few college radicals...who have joined in a conspiracy to tell the people of Boston how to run their schools." Her fellow committeeman Joseph Lee shares the same viewpoint, but with a twist of his own. White children, he declares, "do not want large numbers of backward pupils from unprospering Negro families shipped into their schools." Surely Mrs. Hicks and Mr. Lee do not represent the New Boston. But where are its leaders...
...addition, she has converted the loud and soft pedals into bars extending the length of the curved keyboard. With feet freed from the center of the piano, she says, the pianist can then swing to either end of the keyboard without having to do a sitdown version of the twist...