Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stopped the show colder than a faithless wife's heart." Never one to toe the party line, Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco, 28 (TIME cover, April 13), stomped all over it with dancing slippers. To the cultural commissars who have banned rock 'n' roll and the twist, Evtushenko wrote in Literaturnaya Gazeta: "Let everybody dance the way he likes." To the Moiseyev dancers, who parodied rock 'n' roll during their U.S. tour with a bit called Back to the Apes, he added: "This is repulsive. In American workers' clubs they dance it simply and beautifully...
...gambols through the tango, the twist, and an agitated bit of neo-'20s dance nonsense called "the kangaroo." After his appearance in this wan swan song of the Broadway season, Cesare Siepi can always go back to the Met; Karnilova will dance again. In Rome's palmier days, the rest of Bravo Giovanni would have been thrown to the lions...
...that the twist is here, everybody's on his own." With a squat of the hips and a throaty gurgle, Hope Hampton, a film star of the '20s who found the fountain of youth, accepted a silver loving cup at Manhattan's Camelot Club with the inscription, "Outstanding Twist Personality of 1962" - an ephemeral accolade authenticated by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which, in its 1962 Book of the Year, illustrates the twist with a Hopeful view...
...screen, and she plays with delicious naturalness and a wonderful wild freedom of feeling. She understands that the daughter is no ordinary heroine. Author Delaney has created a wise child who knows its own mother and is fearlessly determined to know herself, to know life: a female hero, Oliver Twist in a maternity dress...
...before the two-level building, which eventually will hold 20 million documents from his two terms in the White House, Ike wondered aloud: "What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?" Books and movies are laced with "vulgarity, sensuality, indeed downright filth." People dance "the twist instead of the minuet." Modern paintings look as if they have been "run over by a broken-down tin lizzie loaded with paint.'' He did not think the U.S. would go for it for long. "I per sonally believe," said Ike, "that we are about...