Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bitch," which sounds a jot like "Live With Me," is a good rock song that opens side two of the album and is also on the flip of the American 45. (In addition to "Brown Sugar" and "Bitch," the British single includes a remake of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock," which is not available in the U. S.) "I Got the Blues" is a good imitation Otis Redding song, but Jagger should know better than to put himself in a position to be compared with Otis...
...other and more significant force is a new style of sensitivity or perhaps paranoia. It is best articulated by Comedian Flip Wilson. In his familiar television routine, a dialogue is going famously, fairly humming with jolly good will. Then the other party touches Flip-a friendly clap on the shoulder, a matey hand on the sleeve. Wilson recoils like a Prussian who has been slapped. An expression of non-negotiable hostility does a slow freeze across his face. In a rising falsetto he cries: "Don't touch me! Don't you ever touch me!" Wilson is not just...
Promised Land. On the ice, Orr has both blinding speed and a diverse repertory of shifty moves. Skating at full steam, he will suddenly come to a dead stop in front of a startled defender. Then, without losing the puck, he can pivot in a full circle and either flip a backhand pass to a teammate or bolt around the defender. In a variation on the classic give-and-go of basketball, he will lob a lazy pass across the blue line to the center, then streak for the net in time to receive the return pass and slap...
...night Flip was at the Forty Thieves, a nightclub which lives up to its name. There he watched the Bermuda Strollers, the Rockin' Berries, and a famous American group no one had ever heard of go through their routines. While he was there, he was entitled to buy drinks at Club prices since he'd paid his $2 admission. A Singapore Sling went for $2.25, a banana special for $1.75. Everyone who visits Bermuda has to go to the Forty Thieves, but no one can go back a second time...
...What Flip needed was a crimson frisbee with a big white "H" on it. Phil had one, and the "H" was in phosphorescent paint so that it would light up at night. "Say it loud, say it proud." Phil kept advising us through the week. So all he had to do was ask a girl on the beach to throw the frisbee with him and ask her where she went to school. Within 30 seconds, the girl was in his arms, if all went by plan. If all didn't, then the only explanation was the girl's stupidity...