Word: flippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center Merle McClung scored 23 points, hitting nine of eleven shots and employing his patented over-the-head flip with devastating effectiveness. Keith S edlacek scored 20, although his jump shot was not functioning exceptionally well. Barry Williams had 15 points...
...novel about Spain the death of any male character over the age of five must be made to parallel the ritual of the bullfight, and a reader assumes that Celestino's four pains are merely Montherlant's notion of a heart attack. Not so. The police come, flip poor Celestino over, and discover "four thin clean holes which might have been made by a knife or sword." Has Celestino been murdered in some highly symbolic fashion? Apparently not; nor is there any hint that the supernatural is involved. Celestino's death is, rather, superliterary...
...housewife, is undergoing an uncanny transformation. The pattern of change began a while ago, but it has picked up such speed that it is affecting both habits in the home and the future of an entire industry. Millions of cans no longer require keys or openers; they flip, zip, pop or peel. Cans now come in thin tin or aluminum instead of hefty old tin plate, and in many cases have evolved into containers of paper, plastic or fiber foil. The aerosol can, once limited to a few household uses, now dispenses everything from cake icing to lotion for poison...
...More Squeeze. Both companies have gone strongly into flip-top cans for beer and soft drinks; production of flip-tops has risen from 25 million to 3.6 billion in two years. Designers are now working on flip-tops that will remain on the can after it is opened, thus avoid cutting feet when tops are tossed carelessly on floors or beaches. Recently U.S. companies adopted the Swedish idea of covering vacuum-pack coffee cans with plastic lids that can be used to keep the product fresh. Some companies have already taken the next obvious step: putting advertising stress...
Otherwise, Lovely War might have been merely an arid anti-war tract. At first, the flip, saucy cast seems bent only on deriding the crippled bodies, the eroding corpses, the eyes of anguish that stare from still shots on the drop screen with enormous dramatic pathos. But by a subtle transference, the men on the stage become the suffering men on the screen, and their bitter jests testify to the resilience of man, a creature who laughs in order to endure the unendurable...