Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scratch a Flexible Flyer and underneath lies a luge. The principal difference, of course, is a matter of speed. The luge run at Innsbruck will produce a maximum speed of almost 70 m.p.h., and belly flopping is grounds for disqualification. The racers lie on their backs and steer with their...
ff In this film, Pasolini's eighty-year-old mother, with whom he lived all his life, plays the Virgin Mary. Their love-hate relationship was an extreme example of a very common psychological problem among Italian men: "il mamma-ismo." For Pasolini the situation was intensified by the fact...
Although cast in the genre's typically repetitive structure, "Format VI," one of Brenda Way's two works, ironically undercuts the idea of mathematical/conceptual/schematized dance. Six dancers begin standing in formation upstage. Walking forward as a line, they crouch nearer and nearer to the floor until lying belly-down. Pusing...
In The Verdict Knef deals just as effectively with the panic of being sick in a modern hospital. Emerging from anaesthesia, she hears herself being discussed by attendants: "Would you recognize her? I mean, the way you know her from TV?" There is the blinding need for painkillers. "I'...
The chief executives of big corporations have far more executive experience than Senators and Congressmen, and some have training approaching that of Governors. The leaders of business have to deal with many varied constituencies-employees, shareholders, corporate directors, state and federal legislators, Government regulators, the press, consumer activists. The interests...