Word: flips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUSSYCAT. Diana Sands and Alan Alda give top performances: Sands is a prostitute with a tongue of brass who moves in on a bookish clerk (Alda) in Bill Manhoffs flip and funny version of the contemporary form of the mating dance...
...Your cover story on Buddhism was at times hasty, flip, sarcastic, snide, sniping, pompous, preachy, and in bad taste...
Little Herbie Solomon was, every body said, a square. While the other saxophone players at Brooklyn's Abra ham Lincoln High School were trying to imitate the new bebop style of Charlie ("Bird") Parker. Herbie was still practicing to old Illinois Jacquet and Flip Phillips records. You're not with it, Herbie, they said, and refused to let him play with the school's dance band...
...dive presents another cliff-hanger for the two teams. Army's A1 Alexander just edged Danny Mahoney off the high board last year, but Mahoney came back to flip him soundly in the Easterns and the nationals. In Cambridge Mahoney would win; with Army's judges it will be close...
...mother of one of the contestants in the Miss Teenage America contest in Dallas, I hasten to take great exception to your flip reporting of the event [Nov. 20]. These young ladies were fine, dignified representatives of their cities and states. The only time they did the monkey and the bird was at a purely recreational function, after putting in grueling rehearsal hours for the telecast. At all times they were protected by security officers, in addition to their mothers or chaperones...