Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only American ever to dance with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet. So off they waded into the Via Veneto's Dolce Vita, having a capital time dining at George's where no gentleman is allowed without a coat (an exception was made for Evgeny), doing a "slow twist" at the Club 84, and closing the swank Café de Paris at 3:30 a.m. Gossips buzzed that the poet was resuming a romance. "No, we are only old friends," said she. "He's aged a lot-life hasn't been easy for him these past...
Some delegates were having none of that. A few reported receiving telegrams urging "Impeach Appel!" and in the wrangling that went on for four days behind closed doors, old labels took on a new twist. The "radicals" wanted a boycott that would mean that doctors would refuse to cooperate at all with medicare. The "conservatives" were the more cautious, who insisted that they didn't like medicare either, and would do everything in their power to oppose its enactment, but would, as President Appel had urged, go along if it becomes...
...diminutive Rosita Duran, the greatest female flamenco dancer since La Argentinita. La Zambra's success has prompted the opening of a smattering of similar tablaos. But there are still only some two dozen topflight dancers and singers in the country-and 14 million tourists a year to applaud twist flamenco...
...Then the Twist. Now that she is learning how to walk once more, Ann Rowston still has problems in propor tion. Her torso cannot be shortened...
What Fleming's literary critics overlook is that in transferring Bond from fiction to film, and endowing him with all the attributes of Scottish-born Actor Sean Connery, a new twist has been added. Says Chief Scriptwriter Richard Maibaum in the current Esquire: "The common denominator is deadpan spoofing. We know it, the audience knows it, yet they are perfectly willing to alternately believe and disbelieve what is happening on the screen." To help illusion along, there are not only gadgets galore - Bond's tricked up Aston-Martin is now a main attraction...