Word: twists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Twist & All That...
Last December Carole took up housekeeping in a cooperative townhouse at 308 N Street S.W., just a short ride from the Capitol. It was a well-furnished apartment, with prints on the walls, silk draperies in the bedrooms, lavender carpeting in the bathrooms. The parties there were lively. The twist was danced both inside the house and on the patio outside; the convivial drinking and animated chatter lasted long into the night. Some nearby residents noted that visitors appeared in the daytime as well as the evening. "A lot of people used to come through the back gate," recalls...
...affair given by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Leas for their daughter, Miss Fernanda Wanamaker Weather-ill--developed into a frenzied free-for-all in the early hours of the morning of Sept. 1. At 6:30 a.m. more than 100 of the party's 800 guests marched with a twist band to a neighboring mansion which had been rented by the Leas...
...around in the revolving television tower at Stuttgart, with its lofty restaurant-lounge, he gives only occasional thought to die Flucht-the flight before the Russians 18 years ago-and other hideous memories of an early era. On Berlin's Kudamm, which Christopher Isherwood would never recognize, Germans twist-and twist and twist-though they live skin-close to the Communists. In Hamburg, Max Schmeling is proud of his gleaming Coca-Cola bottling plant, where he arrives each morning like any other businessman. On the same street, kids hurry off to school, blissfully ignorant of Schmeling or Hitler...
...Ashley and Robert Redford are one couple in ten thousand. Their romantic good looks and deft comic timing give the play a believable illogic in which farce becomes fairy tale. As one of the world's funnier women, Mildred Natwick can verbally give a line the same corkscrewy twist that Margaret Rutherford manages with massive facial quirks. Nowadays, when even the comic muse pulls a long face, a smiling, unalloyed joy awaits those who hotfoot it to Barefoot...