The Frug was a dance craze from the 1960s that evolved from another dance of the era, The Chicken. The Chicken, which featured lateral body movements, was used primarily as a change of pace step while doing The Twist. As young dancers grew more tired they would do less work, moving only their hips while standing in place. They then started making up arm movements for the dance, which prompted the birth of The Swim, The Monkey, The Dog, The Watusi, and The Jerk. The Frug is sometimes referred to as The Surf, Big Bea and The Thunderbird.
"The Frug" is also the title of a song by the band Rilo Kiley, and it appeared on both their debut album, The Initial Friend E.P., and on the soundtrack to the movie Desert Blue.
Frug writes with authority and complete mastery of his subject matter, as well as with moving moral conviction.
Frug begins by describing how American law treats cities as subdivisions of states and shows how this arrangement has encouraged the separation of metropolitan residents into different, sometimes hostile groups.
Ultimately, Frug calls for replacing the current legal definition of cities with an alternative based on what he calls "community building"--an alternative that gives cities within the same metropolitan region incentives to forge closer links with each other.
Frug freely acknowledges that existing law not only permits but also encourages suburban municipalities to be as selfish as they can manage to be: to use zoning to exclude the poor while drawing on an affluent tax base to provide their citizens with exclusive access to high-quality services.
Frug also proposes regional “policy juries.” Just as juries are called upon to decide difficult issues in criminal and civil law, so a hundred-member “policy jury” of citizens drawn from around the region could examine controversial issues of regional policy.
Frug then proposes a series of legal strate-gies that would embody a “postmodern conception of local government law.” This involves deconstructing the idea of borders as determinative: “a person’s territorial identity should not be reduced to his or her address” (101).
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