Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Picasso's Uhde seems to be a frontel bust, the lapels of his jacket flip through spatial planes in the Cubist tradition of dislocating space. The head too assumes a multitude of positions, as if the artist is superimposing several perspectives on one surface, a photographic technique in oil, providing an insight into the more complex facets of this particular character...
Rabbit's Penn Villas warren becomes a crash pad for Jill, a teen-age runaway from suburban Connecticut, and a skinny black radical named Skeeter, a curious combination of Flip Wilson, Rap Brown and early Malcolm X. As in Couples, it is again a fire that destroys, purges or does whatever fire is supposed to do in such charged circumstances. Rabbit's house is burned down by Penn Villas residents who are less concerned about their property values than about their children watching Jill and Skeeter get high and fornicate...
...Tory M.P.s-thereby making it harder for the Labor Party to impose discipline on its own pro-Marketeers-he assured a majority and also brightened his image in Britain and on the Continent. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, by contrast, emerged from the long struggle with the derisive nickname "Flip Flop." He had renewed Britain's entry bid in 1967, only to have it again vetoed by De Gaulle. Now, heeding polls over principles, he denounced the terms of entry, though several of his own former Cabinet ministers admitted that his government would have been delighted to accept such terms...
...slow starters-in worse days he had to do a rerun of tenth grade. The second bananas are all first-rate, notably Judy Graubart, whose roles include Julia Grownup; Skip Hinnant, the Don Adams-style sleuth, Fargo North; Lee Chamberlin, as Rosalie the fortuneteller; and Morgan Freeman, the elongated Flip Wilson cast both as Easy Reader and a soul-sound disk jockey...
However, Harvard scored once more before the end of the first half when Kydes hit the lower left corner with a flip shot over his head...