Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above the clink of crystal goblets and the beat of a twist tune wafted shreds and snippets of conversation. "Looks like Pierre made a party on the way." "No, darling, these models don't have a thing on underneath. They don't have anything to hide." "Look at Ethel go! Where does she get the energy?" "Look, McCone is actually smiling!" "I would love to see Allen Dulles twist." Floating among the crowd of 300 smartly-dressed people was the hostess, a tawny blonde, her hair bouffant, her gown a new Cardin, her perfume by Dior...
...dancing, Saigon's long-repressed night life flowered as never before. In bars and cabarets, the B-girls shucked the white, hospital-like smocks they had been forced to wear under the morality laws, wriggled back into their traditional slit skirts, or into U.S.-style slacks, to twist and tango with Viet and American soldiers into the small hours...
...Maniac's Shaping. Though Americans might find the Beatles achingly familiar (their songs consist mainly of "Yeh!" screamed to the accompaniment of three guitars and a thunderous drum), they are apparently irresistible to the English. A short year ago, they were back in Liverpool singing such songs as Twist and Shout and Love Me Do into the din of the tough Merseyside pubs. Now they earn $5,000 a week playing one-night stands all over Britain. Their records have sold 2,500,000 copies, and crowds stampede for a chance to touch the hem of the collarless coats...
...Brooklynite, whose parents brought him to the U.S. from Rumania in 1897, Sam Leibowitz went to Cornell Law School and became a dramatically successful criminal lawyer. In the 1920s and '30s, his roster of clients included some of the country's most notorious hoods-Al Capone, Kid Twist Reles, Pittsburgh Phil Strauss. He fought for the Mad Dog Killer and the Bread Knife Murderess, and of more than 100 defendants charged with first-degree murder, Sam saved all but one from the electric chair. The loser made the unforgivable error of leaving his fingerprints behind...
...Russia the twist is still an underground movement, banned as an example of capitalist degeneracy, but most of the satellites have given up fighting the dance. Typical is Hungary, which, to dissuade its youth from tuning in on Western radio stations, actually imported twist records and commissioned Budapest's top cat, Janos Koos, to groove some twist disks of his own. Next, testing the theory that deep-rhythm music eases industrial tensions by sublimating aggressions, efficiency experts in a Hungarian textile factory gave the workers a 15-minute break, during which twist music was piped through the plant. Bill...