Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tolerance, Bombay supports the left-wing tabloid Blitz, which recently published pictures to "prove" that Lee Oswald did not shoot President John Kennedy, and also the right-wing tabloid Current, which flays Nehru and his nonalignment policies. Even Bombay's teenagers have a magazine that features Elvis Presley, twist instructions, and such articles as "Are Kissing Dates Dangerous?" Bombay is headquarters for the nation's movie industry, which turns out some 300 feature-length films a year. A recent and elaborate movie wedding in Bombay drew 10,000 guests, but none of them were considered top-drawer socially...
...Tuaregs seem to be related to the Phoenicians, write with an ancient alphabet called tifinagh that can be read from right to left, left to right, up or down. But they use it often to compose erotic poetry or scrawl obscenities on lonely desert rocks. Lukewarm Moslems, the Tuaregs twist the usual Islamic custom by insisting that their men go veiled while the women's faces remain bare. It is not a bad idea, since most Tuareg women are handsome-at least before marriage. Obesity is a sign of beauty among the Tuaregs, and many tribesmen force-feed their...
BRUNO LUCCHESI-Forum, 1018 Madison Ave. at 79th. The new bronzes of this Italian-born New Yorker, a 1962 Guggenheim fellow, sparkle with candid spontaneity: washerwomen gossip over wet rags, a child quivers on stilts, a peasant Girl Tying Apron seems to be doing the twist. What continually threatens Lucchesi's suspended animations is a manneristic overdose of whimsy. Through...
...Twist Song. Chrysler stirs up attention among youngsters with its high-powered Plymouths and Dodges, which are the current big winners in drag racing. General Motors, though it carefully shuns racing, plans to have teen-agers drive its Chevrolets in this year's Mobil Economy Run. One of the most successful Chevrolet television commercials runs for one minute with no words and only soft music; it simply shows a boy and girl pleasantly flirting on the beach -with a shiny Impala hardtop and a Corvette Sting Ray in the background. Ford is receiving a lift among the young from...
...also speaks perfect English), Guy blends well against many backdrops: he is a friend and confidant of some of France's ranking politicians, raises championship horses, is a good skier and a devoted golfer. With his handsome wife, he is ready to try the latest dances, from the twist to the hully gully. Most of all, he is dedicated to enlarging the fortunes of his bank, de Rothschild Frères (which is known to competitors as La Grande Dame des Banques Privées), and to forging the two family branches closer together. Says Guy: "Our relations...