Word: vitus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wallace in 1976. He craftily plays down his chances in the March 2 primary and then adds-with something between a twinkle and a leer: "What if I did get a good vote? It would be a pretty potent message, wouldn't it? It would give them St. Vitus's dance in other campaign headquarters...
What is most striking about the Hustle is that it is graceful-and it is danced, not improvised. After years of the frug, the boogaloo, the monkey and similar "hang-loose" mating rituals consisting of uncoordinated grinds, bounces and St. Vitus-like contortions that had men and women dancing at each other, the Hustle brings back basic steps-elaborations on a tap, 1-2-3,4-5-6 arrangement-and stylized arm movements in which the dancers are partners again. At the B.B.C. (for Bombay Bicycle Club) on Chicago's Near North disco row, Songwriter-Composer Robbin Grand explains...
...handles only clean and cute junk, they outfit themselves as a band of strolling players devoted to acting out the Passion against the picturesque backdrop of the modern Jerusalem (Manhattan!). The players hop, skip and bounce relentlessly through their routines as if the relevant saint for them was St. Vitus. Not that any of these rolling pebbles bring any passion to the Passion, since what they want to elicit from the audience is a series of ahs rather than a sense of awe. Nor that New York, in Director David Greene's vision, looks like a city in need...
...while, in America, sportswriters and boxing buffs--mainly whites, but some blacks, too--were doing the Saint Vitus Dance over what they called the irreparable damage Ali was doing to the fight game and its top honor. Like unctuous clergy defrocking a black sheep priest, they mumbled about heresy and the sovereignty of the faith as if pugilism were the true church of Christ in Everlast and Fat City the terminus of the Celestial Railroad. So, they shore Ali of his title, and with silent supplications for the second coming of the Great White Hope, called for a new idol...
...Next year we should get Vitus Gerulaitis, the best junior in the country to come here, and that will establish Columbia as one of the top tennis colleges in the country," Seewagon said...