Word: watusi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Panting Hostesses. In Manhattan, Nureyev was the man of the hour, and he relished every minute of it. At a post-performance party, he exuberantly danced the watusi and the frug with Fonteyn, soundly bussed one of the pretty girls from the corps de ballet. Hostesses panted for his presence. Because of rehearsal commitments, he had to turn down a dinner invitation from Jackie Kennedy (see MODERN LIVING...
...paying job with an oil company than a houri-filled paradise. For hundreds of years Moslem women have had to endure the restrictions of purdah-seclusion and heavy veiling. The liberated young ladies of Lebanon, long freed from purdah, now wear bikinis on the beaches of Beirut, dance the watusi at discothèques, and even marry Christians. "The young intelligentsia are fighting to modernize," says Dr. Régis Blachère of Paris' Institute of Islamic Studies. "They would like Islam to be an ethic without the limitations of practices in contradiction to modern life...
They mingled and they ate and they drank. When things loosened up, the crowd made room for indefatigable Luci Baines, who, with her father looking proudly on, gyrated through a vigorous Watusi, an arduous Frug, to such notable compositions as Monkey Climb and Walk Right...
...words and to shake hands right and left, just as if he were campaigning. He also got into the crush on the dance floor, as the band played oldies like The Way You Look Tonight and I've Got the World on a String. Luci, the Watusi expert, burned up the floor with her best beau, Paul Betz, a student at Maryland's Mount Saint Mary's College.* Lynda and Manhattan Stockbroker (and onetime White House aide) David Lefeve, and Hubert and Muriel Humphrey joined the rest...
...camels, tethered opposite the elephants. Noah's son Japheth, played by one of Althoff's animal trainers, was using baby talk to soothe a pair of lions and Siberian tigers in their glassed-in cages. Elsewhere in the hold, zebras nipped, sheep bleated, yaks grunted and Watusi bulls bellowed. But the real test is yet to come. This week the whole zoo, accompanied by some 1,000 birds, will make its way up the gangplank, two by two. "My God," groaned Huston, "how the hell did Noah...