Word: watusi
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...Reasoning Together." The evening began quietly enough with a fox trot, the only step that Lyndon Johnson has ever been known to execute-whatever the music. Then Johnson urged Daughter Luci to Watusi with Fiance Patrick Nugent. From then on, in the words of one bystander, it was "Copenhagen a Go-Go." Lady Bird Johnson, topping the bill with Hubert Humphrey, bolted into a frenetic frug and a whirling Watusi. "Why," gasped one sideliner when Lady Bird started to swing, "she's doing the whole screaming...
...that the only attractive currents for our generation are coming from the Western part of the world. Here they tell us we are a new generation building a new world; then they insist we dance a folk dance two centuries old." As a consequence, Eastern European girls prefer the watusi, the jerk, and big-beat music...
...they do at countless collegiate parties everywhere, the couples wriggled to the watusi and gyrated to the jerk, while recorded drums and saxophones resounded in the dimly lit apartment of a University of California student in Berkeley. Unlike parties most anywhere, however, the boys and girls were naked. After a while some of the couples drifted into bedrooms. Some embraced in darkened corners...
...many selves: singer, dancer, co median, actor, mimic, impresario. No one, including Davis, has ever defined his appeal. As a high-swinging singer he has sold well over 6,000,000 records; yet many singers have sold more. As a nonstop hoofer he can switch from waltz clog to Watusi without missing a step; yet so can Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. As a multivoiced mimic he can do nearly every movie star who ever lived-yet there are other impressionists who can keep up with...
...once at the New York World's Fair, where he do-si-doed into a square-dance demonstration, again in Philadelphia when he overheard the Delaware Valley Square Dance Association holding a hoedown in the ballroom of his hotel. But at the mention of the frug or Watusi, the prince winces a bit: "I do not do these dances, and it is not for me to say too hastily whether they are good...