If I have 11 pine nuts and I give you five, keeping six for myself, what do we have? We have a difference of a pi\u00c3\u00b1on.<\/p>\n
What if our differences concern not quantity but time? My wife, Bonnie, and I have radically divergent conception of time, which I will now explain.<\/p>\n
You see, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m likely to say to Bonnie, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen Diana in two years,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to which my wife will reply, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been more like 10 years.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right? Well, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not go into that now, except to stress that I usually give her the benefit of the doubt. On one such occasion, we even looked it up and discovered that it had been closer to 10 years, but it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly 10 years, more like nine.<\/p>\n
The same idea popped in last week when it seemed as if the world had ended. Rather, it was several clips showing Miley Cyrus, performing a lewd dance, her tongue hanging out by a foot (my exaggeration), in a skimpy, flesh-colored outfit, as she gyrated, performed a lot of unmistakable stances designed to titillate the crowd at her performance for the Video Music Awards, to a multitude of admiring, fawning, gasping, salivating, arms-undulating fans.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Miley Cyrus that cute little 10-year-old who last year played Hannah Montana?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I ask. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That was 10 years ago. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 20 now,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bonnie says.<\/p>\n
Remember the incident during halftime of a Super Bowl when Janet Jackson caused millions of viewers to back up their video recorders repeatedly as they asked, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Did they really do that?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yes they did.<\/p>\n
Purposely, I hedged on the year of the Roman numbers of that Super Bowl, as I will argue that it was only last year and Bonnie will say it was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more like 10 years ago.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
In a routine with Justin Timberlake, the oh-so-innocent performers let a key part of Janet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s upper anatomy get exposed. Now purely for scientific and sociological reasons, I too hit the rewind button on my TV set, just to be reassured that I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t being hasty in my judgment. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure many of you did the same thing,\u00c2\u00a0 whenever it was.<\/p>\n
So much attention did this mammarian exposure generate that we needed a new term \u00e2\u20ac\u201d wardrobe malfunction \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to explain and justify what happened and to exonerate Timberlake and Janet Jackson. There was no wardrobe malfunction in Miley Cyrus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bumps-and-grinds routine. The entire performance was a malfunction.<\/p>\n
Did Miley Cyrus make a bigger splash than Janet Jackson? My first disclosure is that I never purposely watch a performance like that. My familiarity with Miley came solely through the non-stop videos that played on some of the late-night shows on TV.<\/p>\n
So profound was the Cyrus-Thicke caper that lexicographers have even added a new word for the display. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153twerking,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and its definition goes like this: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Twerking is a dance move that involves a person, usually a woman, shaking her hips in an up-and-down bouncing motion, causing the dancer to shake, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwobble\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcjiggle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122; to dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
And that just about describes what the 20-year old Miley did. We wonder which came first, the dance or the definition. Did some producer say to Miley and Robin, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Please do some twerking in your routine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? or did the act precede the definition, as in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, that dance was so shocking that it amounted to . . . to . . . twerking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/p>\n
The clips that appeared on national TV were fairly brief, as was Miley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flesh-colored outfit. The most disturbing part was that the former Hannah Montana thrust her tongue out Great Dane style, for . . . for whatever reason.<\/p>\n
Was the dance art? Hardly. Was there any talent? Absolutely not.
\nWhat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to stop any 20-year-old from doing similar gyrations, tongue hanging out by a foot, thinking it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talent, and making millions?<\/p>\n
Miley Cyrus, is best known for her role on the Disney television series Hannah Montana. Her father is William \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Billy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ray Cyrus, an American country music singer, songwriter and actor.<\/p>\n
Miley cut her teeth early in life with Disney productions, as did Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan. We need to question whether these stars are ideal role models for our young, innocent, impressionable youth.<\/p>\n
That kind of lewd exhibitionism just doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122twerk.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00e2\u20ac\u201a\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00e2\u20ac\u201a\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 As part of the Las Vegas Old Timers Living History Project, a group of residents got together to give monthly panel discussions on the way things were when we were children.<\/p>\n
The prime mover for this project was Petey Salman, whose recollections brought to mind the days when much of north Seventh Street was an open field, where horses once grazed.<\/p>\n
Petey grew up where La Fiesta Restaurant now operates. During the time we had these historical presentations, Petey rounded up the following people:<\/p>\n
Molly Garcia, Ernie Quintana, Editha Bartley, Erminio Martinez, Manuel Pacheco, Tito Chavez, Duke Salman, Samuel F. Vigil, Al Castillo, Jimmy Koch, Petey herself, and me.
\nIt took lots of work, energy and planning to produce these programs, and many who attended are appreciative of her efforts.<\/p>\n
My friend Petey passed away Aug. 26. We will miss her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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