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...Mike Ewanouski, a flip from the left side, the result of a blown clear...
...that unusual to find on any team, but this year's women's team has four leftics and a fifth player who is right-handed but prefers the left side. Whereas most teams design their offenses to go right, most players' naturally strong side. Harvard will often flip over the other...
Other players say the body English, the nudging, gunching and infinite alternations of the ways to flip the flipper and score points off the thumper-bumper make the game a combination of, say, chess (brainwork), hockey (physical coordination) and lovemaking (sensitivity). Concludes Roger C. Sharpe, author of a new, definitive book called Pinball: "It takes years of practice every...
...lunatic deluge of sight gags, supercool show-biz parodies, zany body language and well-paced one-liners. Martin seems spacey, and his props appear to be simplistic. But below that surface, the act is as tight as a bear hug, and even the simplest shtik has flip-side gags within gags...
There was also the voice, suddenly made famous on radio, that inspired Hollywood to cast Crosby in the feature picture (Paramount's The Big Broadcast) that was to launch the flip side of Bing's career. In the movies as onstage, Crosby seemed always to come on singing happy, upbeat, don't-worry songs that the trouble-weary public loved during the Depression. He scored successes in such movies as Pennies from Heaven and Waikiki Wedding, but it was as the lazy, goodhearted ne'er-do-well in Sing You Sinners, in 1938, that he found...