Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Darlings." In a succession of bills, Mme. Nhu banned prostitution, contraceptives, abortion, organized animal fights and taxi dancing. Referring to the war, she said, "Dancing with death is enough." In Saigon, "twist easies" began to spring up, and criticism mounted that Mme. Nhu was trying to impose rigid Catholic standards on South Viet Nam's easygoing sexual mores. She herself used to go swimming at the fashionable Cercle Sportif. but stayed away when she saw too many bikinis. Even some government officials privately said that the morality crusade resulted only in increased and unnecessary public hostility toward the Diem regime...
Tomorrow, knows just how to get him back to the books. If he keeps on studying, she promises to give up bed and booty for a week-and that includes her real boy friend, played by Marcello Mastroianni, 38. So there's nothing to do but twist the night away. And that was O.K. with Actress Loren. "Marcello does a beautiful twist," she said cannily. "But then he is a great actor all over...
Though they call their music jazz, the Okayistes lean heavily on a hypnotic beat that is traditionally African mixed with a little twist, some of Ghana's syncopated High Life, and a sizable portion of swaying Latin American rhythms. The combination earns them about $15,000 a month. "We ourselves like pure jazz best," says one Okayiste, "but our people don't like it. If we only played jazz, we'd soon go broke." Always on the lookout for old African tribal melodies, band members often go into the bush to watch village dances, rework the tunes...
...body control, was rated one of the ten best trampoline men in the country. One day last week, he was tuning up for the U.S.-Russian track meet in Moscow late this month by performing a complicated trampoline maneuver called a "flifis": a double backward somersault with a twist. Something went wrong. He seemed to lose control in midair, fell 14 ft. head-first and sprawled motionless on the trampoline. Paralyzed from the neck down, he was rushed to a hospital, where doctors found a dislocated cervical vertebra-in layman's language, a broken neck. At week...
Many other Japanese tried and failed at the same thing, but Sony succeeded by blending Eastern industriousness with modern Western business technique. The company favors hard-sell advertising, channels about 4.5% of sales into research, and is quick to add its own twist to what others invent. Brags Ibuka: "We have always been the first to see the possibilities in any new discovery and translate it into practical, useful items." After U.S. scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories developed the transistor, Sony became the first non-U.S. company to make transistor radios. Older and bigger Japanese companies soon began competing...