Word: flick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about midway in the 54-nation field, to play exhibition matches in several Chinese cities, with all expenses paid by Chairman Mao's paddle-minded government. Yet it is a bit unsettling to think that a historic new Open Door policy may have been created by an expert flick of the wrist or that sport was purposely subverted to the uses of diplomacy...
Video-taped pinkies are beginning to face stern competition. In some of Osaka's hotel rooms, video-tape recorder systems have been installed. A flick of a switch near the pillow starts a video-tape camera recording activity on the bed. Afterward, another switch provides instant replays. Rooms so equipped are in steady demand: one couple attempting to sample the pleasures of an avec hotel was ordered by the maid to wait for a call at a nearby coffeehouse. "All the rooms are occupied," she said, "as usual...
...wonder that most of the highly talented youth in this country who fail to go to college are girls. No wonder that those who do go often drop out at the flick of the ring. They have never really been in. They have not aspired to scholarship or service. This is not the dream of democracy: this is Brave New World...
...kill this day while the killing goes on in Indochina? What guts have you found that meet MWF at noon? Who's on Dick Cavett tonight? Did you read the latest message from the Weather underground? When's your book coming out? Have you seen the new Chabrol flick? Isn't it wonderful that since I've been here we got rid of the coat-and-tie rule and parietals...
...problem in the '70s will not be enough players. Where there are beautiful women, men can always be found. Far more threatening to the reviving industry is a misreading of the entrails, a miscalculation of public opinion. To return to the stereotypical Joan Crawford flick ("Let me alone, Paul, I'm a lost crusade") would be to drown in a sea of sorghum, to turn off the young, the middle-aged and the old. To generations brought up on television, every plot is known; to a sexually liberated society, every shock has been felt or consciously bypassed...