Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moved with the crowd through the Yard and down past the Busch-Reisinger. The crowd started to run and we ran. "Ho, Ho, Ho, Chi Minh" they chanted and we clapped with the chant. I looked at Flip grinning through his moustache under his felt hat. "This is my first opportunity to be a non-student outside agitator," he said. Win snipped pictures. Howard asked people for cigarette papers...
...Flip came to my aid. "You have to admit that the influence of this kind of man at the University is pretty...
...walked down Divinity Avenue, a green MG drove by and one of the professors waved and honked. "What do you say we forget about politics and participate in the cultural revolution this afternoon?" Flip said. It seemed the only thing...
...anyone epitomizes the new look in black humor, it is probably Flip Wilson; he seems to have solved the considerable problem of how to be black without being racial. Like Cosby, he tends to narrative rather than one-liners. His harridan housewife who swears to her hapless preacher husband, "The devil made me buy that dress!" may become one of the classic routines of American comedy. On a funkier level is Richard Pryor. Aside from his extensive repertory of anal and armpit gags, Pryor does such splendidly satirical routines as "It's a bat, it's a crow...
...stars, but they still tend to be restricted to playing what Harry Belafonte resentfully calls "Super-Negroes"-that is, roles that are one-dimensional and have little relevance to black reality. Generally, the characters they portray are admirable beyond plausibility. In television, blacks like Bill Cosby, Leslie Uggams and Flip Wilson have cleared the last hurdle, as headliners of their own shows. Of the networks' 72 prime-time series, twelve have black co-stars or featured players. In nonacting production jobs, a report on Hollywood film and TV studios showed that black employment increased 48% from...