shimmy

At hourly intervals, music would start to play and women in their sequins and silks would emerge from behind a curtain to shimmy and shake their way across the room — heaven.

For the swimsuit portion of the Miss Argentina contest, Rodríguez chose a modest one-piece suit with a shawl draped over her shoulders, giving the crowd a shimmy as fans whooped and blew air horns.

Just when we thought the exaggerated “bat flip” was the height of arrogant showmanship, that insipid twist-and-wiggle shimmy shake, with arms raised in blatant self-aggrandizement, by all Dodger batters after every base hit, no matter the score, is bush league and proves Freud’s thesis: The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

The remainder of Western Washington will remain dry, as temperatures shimmy up the thermometer a few degrees into the low 60s, the weather service said.

During Course No. 7 — and drink No. 3 — I did a shimmy because the food was that good.