Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told, everybody had a dandy time dancing, sipping drinks, watching Harry Belafonte do the twist, and wondering what the stock market would do next.* But, as it does at many Bobby-and-Ethel parties, the 40-ft. by 16-ft. swimming pool took over. As a kind of gimmick, Ethel had thrown a 2-ft.-wide bridge across the width of the pool. Upon it, smack in the middle, were a table and two chairs. At one moment, Ethel was sitting there with John Glenn. Then Glenn was sitting there alone-while Ethel was floundering about in the water, bright...
...open-palace party that was attended, if sometimes only briefly, by "everybody."' The next night, the Chicago collectors Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Maremont chartered a vaporetto to take 130 guests to dine on the island of Torcello. After dinner, a band was brought in and everyone did the twist, including British Sculptor Lynn Chadwick and René d'Harnoncourt, the chief dignitary from Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...eagerly awaited broadcast of the Secret Army Organization came on after its usual theme, a few opening bars of a twist tune. The announcer warned that "the coming week will be primordial, decisive, for us Algerians." He hinted broadly that secret talks were under way between the S.A.O. and the Moslem F.L.N., and promised soon to be able to "definitely tell you whether to stay in this country or to leave...
...back behind the wheel. In pajamas and striped dressing gown, the durable daredevil sat in a wheelchair at London's Atkinson Morley's Hospital, joshing the "head-shrinkers" who were putting him through tests, flirting with nurses and telling friends, "I'll be teaching you the twist soon." Doctors no longer feared paralysis from brain damage, but they said it would be four to six months before he could race again. When that time comes, said Moss, he will go to the track where he crashed, and try to equal his 105.37 m.p.h...
...played for the sheer rinky-tink fun of it by people who own either vintage instruments rescued from dusty oblivion or brand-new 1962 models, bought in a shiny showroom. The player piano is coming back into its own again to the tune of Moon River and The Peppermint Twist. And, once again, people are clustering around and singing the old favorites as the hyphenated lyrics C'Va-len-cia! In my dreams it always seems I hear you softly call to me .. .") roll past like a speech on a presidential TelePrompTer...