Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ended up in an impromptu jam session with Musician-Actor Desi Arnaz Jr., her current beau, and Australian Singer Lana Cantrell. Clarke too can be nimble. Though he switched from TIME Essays to Show Business and Television only last month, he managed to finish his cover story on Flip Wilson for the Jan. 31 issue just in time to meet the challenge of getting to know Liza Minnelli...
...Flip Wilson is living proof that the average black is no different from the average white: they are both equally inane and vulgar...
...Long live the clown! He conducts a symphony with perfection of tempo, theme variation and delicate shading of tone. Laughter is music. Play on, Maestro Flip! Play your tunes, play your roles, and play to the children...
...What is universal about Flip Wilson is not his humor but his blackness. He does not transcend blackness, he just works in it. Whoever you are and whatever your race, when he makes you laugh, it's because he is showing you something that you instinctively have and are instinctively keeping alive-that touch of blackness that forces you to triumph over a world that insults...
What you're getting is what you see -in this. Flip Wilson cannot have had any "white mentor...