Word: headstand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which he lacked actors; but the merging of more important roles, the cutting and chopping of important scenes, and the self-consciousness of each departure from Shakespeare unnerve the audience and often make the play's plot incomprehensible. Sellars might just as well have bounded on stage, done a headstand, cried "look at me!" before the curtain rose, and let the play proceed with a modicum of sensibility...
...Headstand, spirals in the Twist...
...then one of the American League's most respected umpires; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. Once, as a Red Sox catcher, Berry blocked a dash to home plate by Babe Ruth. Berry knocked the Babe so hard that he did a mid-air headstand, landed in a heap and was out of the game two weeks recovering from the injury. "But in spite of all I'd done to him," recalled Berry, "he scored...