Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...darkness and swirling smoke, surrounded by a small zoo of reptiles and other phantasmagoric creatures played by dancers. The staging of the final battle between the Christians and the Saracens is a novel affair that can only be called aero-choreography: dancers and acrobats pirouette, somersault, tumble and flip high above the stage in stylized but effective combat. All the while, Home, as Rinaldo, looks on from atop a grim, menacing war machine. It is a memorable image...
THWACK! THUD! "Ican still flip bottle caps," he said, picking one up and flipping it. The cap zipped gracefully through the air. McInally watched it, smiled, and returned to kicking the soccer ball, which now had wet blades of grass clinging...
...that you're on her side, that you share her point of view. It's a flattering assumption, and the temptation is to play along. But if you decide at some point that you want nothing to do with it, you're more or less stuck--it's the flip side of that old bond she set up, just as Ephron's harshness about others is the flip side of her honesty about herself. Perhaps that is the worst thing about Ephron's method of personal journalism--you have to take her in her good moods as well...
...third assistant deputies all crammed into the East Room of the White House-but Jerry Ford beamed and chuckled and acted just as though he had forgotten it was his own 62nd birthday. His doctor had given him a checkup and pronounced him fit, and so did Comedian Flip Wilson, who came to the party as Nurse Geraldine in a red wig and white uniform. Nobody minded that a little fun was made of the President. On the walls there were cartoons of his spill on the steps of Air Force One when he arrived in Salzburg last June...
There is no question that his confidence is robust. Says Washington: "I knew I was good the first time I picked up a bat." That was when he was eleven, but Washington did not flip for baseball at the tune. In fact, he shunned it all the way through Berkeley High School in Berkeley, Calif., where his real passion was basketball. (Small by basketball standards, Washington leaps so high that he has tune to dunk two balls on the same jump.) During the summers he played baseball on a city team, and it was there in 1972 that...