Word: flips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parrot and Pete Mueller set up Johnson's well aimed flip from a sharp angle to Thornton's right...
...labeled cool is "tough," "kicky," "bitchin'," or "groovy." But the most meaningful facet of In-Talk is its ambiguity, a reflection of youth's determination to avoid self-definition even in conversation. "Up tight" can mean anxious, emotionally involved or broke; to "freak out" can mean to flip, go high on drugs, or simply to cross the edge of boredom; a "stud...
Psychedelic Flip-Out. The ultimate weapon of the alienated young remains the same as that employed by Goethe's Werther: oblivion, either physical (through suicide) or psychological (through drugs). Usually it is the latter, though suicide rates are rising through much of the world in the 18-to-25 age group. In Iran, for example, fully 95% of the suicides are in the Now Generation; in the U.S. nearly one in ten. More often, the flip-out is psychedelic. Acid-heads and pot smokers feel that they can ease the weight of the Sisyphean stone by drug...
...drilled and driven by a demonic will to win. So is West Germany, and in the final game of the tournament the two put on an awesome display of pedal operatics. They leap like gin-crazed kangaroos, block like Green Bay Packers, swing their heads like sledge hammers, flip like tumblers and boot the ball 30 yards upfield while standing on their heads in midair. Amazing that at the end of the game, which England wins (4-2) in overtime, the players all look as fresh as when they trotted on the field. The spectator feels like a boiled sweat...
Second line center Jack Garrity stick-handled down the left boards and fed his wing in the middle. Fredo's quick flip from seven feet in front of the cage caught the lower right corner...