Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That battling hard, Muhammad All, treated the TV audience of the Flip Wilson Show to a poetic version of his March 8 fight with World Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier: "Now he lands a right./What a beautiful swing!/And the punch throws Frazier/clean out of the ring./Now Frazier disappears from view./The crowd is getting frantic./ But our radars have picked him up./ He's somewheres over the Atlantic./ Who would have thought/when they came to the fight/that they would witness the launching of a black satellite...
...people frown on dealing in marijuana -after all, it is against the law-the authors describe passing the stuff as just an exhilarating sport. By treating grass with such lightheartedness, the Crichton boys send a controversial message directly to a wide audience. Dealing, etc., is not really about a flip caper; it is a subliminal plea to legalize...
...wrong, he has only to go to that same god again. I wonder how many of them feel the contradiction this strongly. The army has been the source of the best leadership (both Turicos and Yon Sosa were U. S,-trained), but most are not close to such a flip-flop. For most young Indian men, the Army offers the only opportunity for dignity and a relatively decent life. Three meals a day, movie lectures at Ft. Gulick, the big PX in the Sky, fascinating, macho, Green Beret instructors, and most importantly, a gun, which any man, even a North...
...Bermuda shorts and festooned camera equipment, she with her blue sunglasses, red slacks and gold sandals, both staring with puzzled receptiveness at-what? A palm tree? A Morris Lapidus facade? Hanson has pinned down the fragile particularity of pure banality. There may seem to be something too easy, almost flip, about this kind of social anatomization...
...been sharpening the cognitive skills of poor kids by as much as 62%. In its first series, the show reached almost 7,000,000 preschool children every day, five days a week. The Rubber Duckie Song was on the charts for nine weeks. Big Bird became one of Flip Wilson's first guests. Sesame Street won a Peabody Award, three Emmys and two dozen other prizes for excellence. Former Commissioner of Education James E. Allen saluted the show: President Nixon wrote a fan letter. Indeed, despite the show's announcements that it has been brought to you "by the Letter...