Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This recent scene ? and many a similarly bizarre one ? is being re-enacted all across the U.S. nowadays. In Oakland, Calif., when the moon is full, a group of college-educated people gather in a house in a middle-class neighborhood, remove their clothes, and whirl through the double spiral of a witches' dance. In southern New Jersey, a 30-year-old receptionist winds thread around a voodoo doll and sticks steel pins into it in a determined effort to harass a rival at the office into resigning. In Chicago, from 75 to 100 otherwise ordinary people...
...group of good college and club crews and let them fight it out for an Olympic berth. It is an expensive, and perhaps wasteful alternative, but with the memory of Mexico City lingering, and the spectre of Munich looming up ahead, it might provide one definite answer amid a whirl of controversy...
Hopefully, the Festival will draw everyone into a whirl of actions and activities. Giant easels listing the Festival schedule will be installed throughout the Harvard Houses and thousands of long green program strips will itemize the events. For those with a more active interest, the number to call is 495-2152. The Festival needs your help--but what is more, you probably need the Festival
...family $5,000 in debt-elegant red leather furniture, stereo phonograph, color television set. She claimed that she was the guilty party. "I nagged him into becoming a spy," said Maureen, who found it extremely expensive to try keeping up with the navy's social whirl. At the same time, however, she boasted that her husband had taken the Russians for more money than he had admitted in court -about $12,000 in all. "The Russians gave us money like water," she said...
...found charge to a hairdresser friend and had her shoulder-length blonde tresses snipped to boy's length-or the length that boys used to wear their hair. A photographer was called in, and the rest is pop-cult history-the modeling, the magazine covers, the international celebrity whirl. Twiggy was the image of the decade, and Justin de Villeneuve was something of a miracle maker. "I didn't know anything or anyone in the fashion business," he proudly recalls. "Everybody kept telling me I couldn't do this or that, but I just went ahead...