Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corpsmen have piled up hundreds of these tiny triumphs-ranging from teaching the twist in Nyasaland to growing lettuce in Brazil to building badminton courts in Borneo. They have been treed by African buffaloes, serenaded by Filipino gigolos, adopted as sons by Southeast Asian aborigines, frightened by playful natives tossing pythons in their laps...
...course, corrupting. Disquaires have the added pleasure of watching their spell take effect. Soon they start talking like Che Guevara. "I manipulate the crowd," says the woman disquaire at New Jimmy's in Paris. "I play four or five slows, then I attack with a twist...
...scene that is mercifully brief, no doubt at the insistence of the R.S.P.C.A., Actress Rutherford actually dares to ride a horse-to avoid confusion in this episode, it is helpful to remember that the heroine wears the hat. And later on she ventures to do the twist-she does it perhaps not wisely but quite well and with a massive enthusiasm that may remind some spectators of an earnest rhinoceros rubbing its backside on a tree trunk...
...there are two-hour seminar sessions on the great ideas, and every evening there is a lecture, concert or dramatic performance. Despite the taxing schedule, the high-schoolers, 30 of whom are varsity football players, have plenty of surplus energy left over for swimming, tennis, basketball and doing the twist...
...Twist in the Dugout. Wagner is the Angels' clowning glory. He heckles opposing players "unconsciously" (he means unmercifully), dances the twist in the dugout, and gleefully polices the "Outhouse"-the section in the back of the team bus reserved for goof-offs after each Angel game. Wagner's credentials are perfect for the job. Part Negro, part Cherokee Indian, he grew up in Detroit, and decided early that the way to fun and fortune was to be afootball star. But, alas, at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute he learned that college football players do not always get paid...