Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plays Smith, the town's brick-maker, has and gives a better time than anybody. Mr. Goldfarb's self-assurance and gusto are limitless. He really can't sing, but whatever he does with a song, I like it; he really can't dance, but I value his twist beyond measure...
Poor France-it is blessed with three immense schools of popular songwriters. There is the rock-twist crowd, which follows the spiritual guidance of Elvis Presley. Chubby Checker and a Gallic hero named Johnny Hallyday. and spawns an army of combos with names like Les Chats Sauvages. There are "The Defenders of French Music." troubadour-poets like Georges Brassens and Leo Ferre who sing their verses to naughty café melodies. And there is Charles Aznavour...
...take place in a kind of cage; in another, the forms bounce back and forth against a wall and a roof and seem never to come to rest. These sculptures do not rise up from the ground; the forms, though loosely defined by a framework, are made to twist and pierce, coil and writhe in almost complete freedom. Ferber has even done a sculpture in which the framework is a whole room-an "environmental work" that envelops the viewer. It is a daring proposal of marriage between sculpture and architecture, though there are probably not many people who would want...
Five Miles to Midnight. In the screaming jangle of a Paris nightclub. Lisa (Sophia Loren) is dancing le twist with head-back abandon. Enter Robert, the husband, whose winsome, small-boy smile reveals instantly that he is Tony Perkins. Moments later. Robert has bared his vicious little ego and in a fit of petulance is smacking the daylights out of Wife Lisa to launch this chilling story of mismatched mates. When Lisa gets the news that Robert's airliner, bound for Casablanca, has crashed near Bordeaux killing all on board, her grief is tempered with relief. Two nights later...
...nuclear warheads, until at last the U.S. publicly accused Canada of reneging on its defense commitments. Combined with Diefenbaker's dillydallying performance on domestic issues, the uproar was enough to bring down his shaky government. Now he saw a chance to vindicate himself and, on TV, proceeded to twist McNamara's words to his political advantage. "That means that we are just a decoy to draw fire," said Diefenbaker. To reporters, he was exultant. "Happy days are here," he chortled. "This has really put the skids under Pearson. This is the knockout blow." Gleefully he added: "It came...