Word: flippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaker is President Johnson, sounding the keynote address for Greetings, an anti-Establishment comedy of draft-age youth. In search of form, the movie pretends to cover the adventures of three men marking time before they get their "Greetings" from the draft board. In fact, the flip sketches never cohere into a whole picture; Greetings' vitality and weakness are both due to its inability to concentrate on any subject for more than a moment...
...than large ones. The danger that the behemoths run is of be coming bombastic; midgets must combat a tendency to seem cloyingly cute. Since what counts, however, is not an artist's limitations but how successfully he transcends them, both can hope for im mortality. Indeed, they are flip sides of the same coin: both rely on scale to create an effect...
...viewer can then choose a film cartridge, drop it into the player, and dial an unused channel. The film, which automatically threads and rewinds itself, can carry nearly an hour of black-and-white viewing and can be stopped at any time for either individual "freezes" or to flip the frames through one by one as in a slide projector...
Starting tonight, you can flip your Cliffie a dime, dump her on a bus at Lowell, and go back to bed. If you don't have a Cliffie, you can ride the bus--which one student called "a jolly-up on wheels"--until you catch...
...gambler had just doubled his money on a natural seven, but before he could sweep in his chips, a loud drum roll echoed through the garish, tentlike concrete hall. He looked up at the high wire overhead to see one of the Flying Cavarettas flip over three times in the air and land in the arms of her brother. The act distracted him just long enough for the dice shooter to roll a crap three, wiping out the gambler's winnings. He collected his remaining chips, glared at a cavorting clown, shouldered past a lady stilt walker and stalked...