Word: flippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changed from the press-on to the screw-on variety. The threaded lid was capable of withstanding far more pressure than the can itself. At least three cans, in addition to the one that blinded Mrs. Moore, exploded and caused injuries before the company changed the cap. Now a flip-top lid is used, so that even if moisture should get in and cause a pressure-building reaction, the top would probably pop off gently long before an explosive force could develop and blow the can apart...
Much of the show's popularity was undoubtedly traceable to its carnival aspects. Children, especially, delighted in watching Len Lye's kinetic Flip and 2 Twisters, stood entranced as three giant loops of steel jumped and jiggled for 15 minutes at a time. Adults, too, joined in the good-humored spoofs of Claes Oldenburg's gigantic, canvas-covered Ice Cream Cone and Falling Shoestring Potatoes, and his plaster Pecan Pie. They poked their fingers into the spongelike walls of Harold Paris' Pantomina llluma, a "feelies" room containing $10,000 worth of molded, twisted and flat rubber...
...next successful play was a flip from Timberlake, who had threatened the Williams defenseman with a dodge that drew out the midfielders and let Timberlake pass to Cain, who slammed it home with a fantastic shot...
...real goal of the scientist" he said to his audience of engineers and mathematicians, "is to flip out." To prove his point, he cited Newton's spiritualism, Carl Jung's visions, and William James' books on mental telephathy...
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing and Bea Lillie flip through some oh-you-kidding dialogue and some ricky-ticky tunes in an otherwise lackluster musical...