Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BENEDICT ARNOLD'S classical treason and Aaron Burr's sinister plotting are as integral a part of American tradition as Nathan Hale's martyrdom or Benjamin Franklin's diplomacy. Arnold and Burr are the flip side of the historical coin, and to try to turn either into a hero seems a thankless task...
Upon losing all his prey to the Virgin Mary, Satan, himself, (Frank Gerold) does an impressive backward flip and performs more phenomenal contortions. This dramatic use of his entire body, is absent in all but this final scene...
...take as long as an hour to change a word; to alter a one-hour tape could consume a full day. The result of all this fastidious enterprise can be startling. A record is available of one of Nixon's speeches defending his role in Watergate; on the flip side is a doctored version of the speech in which Nixon confesses that he was to blame for Watergate. Same speech, same words-only differently arranged...
...easy living with a pinball machine. Television isn't the only thing that this wicked electronic monster entices me from. Somehow, reading about the lineage system of the User tribesmen isn't quite as thrilling as the orgasmic excitement of getting a really good flip that sends the ball into seeming oblivion. The satisfaction of saving the ball from the "kamakazi drain" by giving just the right body English is far greater than finally figuring out Taylor's theorem...
...Hagerty was a standout for the Crimson, playing at split end and scoring with two touchdown passes. He took an eight or nine yard flip over the goal line in the second period, and went all the way with a long bomb in the third quarter. Doug Gordon and Mike Lynch, Crimson quarterbacks, both turned in fine performances, each responsible for one of Hagerty's scores...