Word: backflips
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...that Jane says, "I couldn't help fantasizing what would have happened if she and my dad had become lovers 40 years ago, and Kate had been my mother." It was Hepburn whose daunting presence made Jane realize she would have to perform a key scene?a difficult backflip into Golden Pond herself?without a stunt woman. Mama Kate's lesson: "If a child never learns to overcome its fears it will become soggy...
...face. She is an infinitely solemn wisp of a girl, 4 ft. 11 in. tall, a mere 86 Ibs.; dark circles above her cheeks; a Kean-eyed elf. Then, with no more strain than it would take to raise a hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing on the sliver of a bar with a thunk so solid it reverberates; up, backward again, a second blind flip, and a landing. No 747 ever set itself down on a two-mile runway with more assurance or aplomb. She leaps, twists, spins, and the 18,000 people in Montreal...
...July. A few weeks later, Ce Soir briskly backtracked: "The story was politically unjust . . . offensive to [a] high personality [living] in deportation and forced residence. The necessary remonstrances have been sent to our correspondent. Our rule on Ce Soir is professional conscience . . . respect for the truth." This routine Bolshevik backflip meant merely that Ce Soir's editors had been "officially informed" of what they should have known all along: Tunisia's Communist Party, culled from 110,000 French and 95,000 Italian residents, had rekindled among 2,300,000 Moslems and Bedouins the fires of independence fanned...