Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radiant and wiggly in a silk dress and smiling sweetly at 700 howling fans, Sophia Loren, in that most hallowed of Hollywood rites, pressed her palms into the gooey cement before Grauman's Chinese Theater. She followed up with her footprints, pressed in with a twist, and then as a fillip below her signature, scrawled an Italian motto: Solo per sempre−only forever...
Since Moonlight came out last February, it has sold a phenomenal 1,700,000 disks. It has been recorded in Flemish, Spanish, German and Italian, and in 42 different versions. It has been done à la New Orleans, in cha cha cha rhythm and as a twist, as a military march and in a stately imitation of Johann Sebastian Bach. Frank Sinatra sang it in French at a Cap-Martin nightclub, and an English songwriter is at work on English lyrics. In all styles, and in any language, Moonlight at Maubeuge...
...signing autographs for hordes of young admirers and startling passers-by with sudden, gazelle-like leaps into the air. The night before he was to compete, Brumel sat in the Stem Hall lounge, feet propped up on an overturned wastebasket, watching Gunsmoke. Behind him. other Russians were learning the twist to a loud-blaring phonograph. Mildly annoyed, Brumel stood up, walked around his overstuffed armchair to the phonograph, and turned the volume down. Then he leaped clear over the chair, landed on his feet, and sank back with a satisfied smile. Commented one Russian: "Valery may not be the best...
...perquisites of office are $15,000 cash and a $7,000 mink coat; the duties include promotional tours of Portugal, Korea, Canada, Mexico and all points south. But Norma showed signs of taking it all in stride. Asked if she could twist, she replied, "Is it really necessary...
...supposed to believe that this gray-haired, begowned lady well into her sixties is a young girl disguised as a young man (an Elizabethan spectator would be expected to take this lady for a boy playing a girl disguised as a young man--the kind of multiple twist that only Genet in The Maids has been able to bring off to perfection...