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Robbins takes a light flip through the calendar. The beginning is too coy: girls dance in the snow, shivering and pushing each other to keep warm. This is not the kind of joke that the City Ballet corps can manage without making it look like a snowslide off a roof. Then, however, Robbins presents Heather Watts with a crystalline gift: a variation with fast échappés and arctic-still balances that show her strong technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Stepping Up to Paradise | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...every bit of Christmas, and when you bend back I'm looking right into the new year."). On "Soul Man" Cropper delivers the same great riff he's been playing for years, and fellow MG Duck Dunn's bass line is downright thunderous. " 'B' Movie Box Car Blues" and "Flip, Flop & Fly" are fine, though not up to the standards set by the album's other tracks...

Author: By Marc E. Raven, | Title: The Blues for Sure | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

Three minutes later, Burke came back on a breakaway and charged Holden only to catch the bottom of the puck and flip it up high, the shot sailing off the goal's crossbar and up into the crowd...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Miss Big on Chances, Fall to Brown, 2-1 | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Spenser, as readers know from Robert Parker's four other novels about the man, is a flip, middleaged, not too successful private investigator from Boston. He has style though and, rarer yet, compassion and a moral code. Asked by a Massachusetts millionaire to track down the gang of crazies who killed his wife and daughters with a bomb in a London restaurant, Spenser replies: "I don't do assassinations." But he does do bounty hunts. The price: $2,500 a head, plus expenses, for the capture, dead or alive, of the nine terrorists involved. Spenser's marks are members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skuldruggery and High Technology | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Emotional flip-flop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Tie With Yale, 0-0 | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

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