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...judged as such Learning and discovering and experimenting are supposed to be exciting processes, but to have them succeed as such requires a boldness and bravery on the part of the student in other words, it's scary to stick your neck out and sometimes you do and you flop miserably. Sometimes the artists in this show flop miserably--but usually because they've fallen prey to the modern student syndrome of not experimenting, or staying in a rut. Those who move beyond the strict confines of a teacher's assignment, if nothing else, escape the mortal sin of being...
...years of retirement on his two California ranches, will return to movies in Mustang Country, an adventure set on the Montana-Canada border. "I wake up in the morning wondering why I said yes," he confesses. "I'm torn between hoping it's a hit or a flop. I've decided I'm not going to read any more scripts...
...lurching from Sunday to Sunday was an obsession with pro football and the exploits of New York Giant Halfback Frank Gifford, a classmate at the University of Southern California. To Exley, 45, Gifford's triumphant career provided weekly proof of his own status as an All-America flop...
Parent puts them all to work with a "stand-up" system. Many goalies use a flop-and-stop technique, dropping to their knees or falling all the way into a split to block the puck with their heavy leg pads. The maneuver has two drawbacks: the 6-oz. vulcanized rubber disk can slip between his legs as the goalie flops; and once he is on the ice, he is helpless against rebound shots. Parent's approach, copied from his idol and teacher, Stand-Up Master Jacques Plante, requires more finesse but provides far tighter defense against rebounds. When attackers...
Embree's best jump came a week later in the Greater Bostons where his Fosbury Flop broke the University and meet records with a leap of 7 ft. 2 1/4 in. The jump surpassed his own Harvard mark of 7 ft. 1 in. set last December against Boston College, and the Briggs Cage mark of 7 ft. 1 1/2 in. set by Olympian John Thomas...