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...only other candidate to knock the Lions out of the basement is Brown, where Coach Mickey Kwiatkowski's innovative Spread-T Flex offense will be crippled because nobody will know how it works...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: It's No Secret: Tigers Are the Ones to Beat | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

CHORUS GIRLS TWIRL AROUND IN HEADdresses a la Busby Berkeley. Gymnasts flex, and one inverts himself into a handstand minutes long. A busty blond croons a pop tune. Then Nazi soldiers march in. No, it's not Broadway's Cabaret, but an even more genuine article, staged by Berlin's Theater des Westens to depict how Hitler's regime fused popular culture and propaganda. BERLIN CABARET, at Washington's Kennedy Center through this week, is gloriously mounted if scantily plotted. Its showy numbers evoke radio, pop music and the 1936 Olympics but focus on the movies, especially as seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 11, 1992 | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...article, Counter writes that a certain "para-white ethnic groups" uses the word "nigger" in order "to convince themselves and others of their imagined white identity and publicly flex their 'whiteness.'" This usage "may well be part of a much larger ethnic scheme designed to denigrate Afro-Americans..." By the way, the culprits are "Euro-American individuals and special interest groups with powerful influence in the media..." He cites several examples, such as the movie Blazing Saddles (by Mel Brooks, a Jew) as well as the use of the word "shvartza" (a Yiddish word...

Author: By Gordon Lederman, | Title: Counter Is an Anti-Semite | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...Vide. The three muscular men who make up Right Said Fred objectify themselves in the most beautiful of ways. They strut, they preen, they flex, they "shake their little tushes on the catwalk." Delicious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bits of Sex And Violence | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

...feasible, Rueckner sometimes spices the experiments up in other ways. For the shattering wine glass demonstration of resonance, the motion is slowed down with a stoboscope. The team can also use video cameras. In either case, says Rueckner, grinning, "It's really impressive how much glass can flex...

Author: By Douglas M. Kaden, | Title: The Man Behind the Scenes At the Science Center | 11/9/1991 | See Source »

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