Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bluebells!" Out from the wings prance 17 abundantly healthy girls, strenuously smiling. They are big, leggy and bosomy. They can do a cakewalk; they can swivel through a Charleston to the music of Yes, We Have No Bananas and Ain't She Sweet? They can shimmy, shake and kick their legs in perfect unison. Then they race into the wings to ruffles, flourishes and fanfares in the orchestra and table thumping applause from the audience in the world-famed Lido of Paris...
Well, that's one way to give the customers a kick. But there are others, and Walt Disney exploits almost all of them in this insuperably sappy sequel to The Absent Minded Professor. Remember him? His name is Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) and he teaches chemistry at Medfield College. One day he blows up his lab and in the debris discovers flubber-the word means flying rubber, and the substance it describes repeals the law of gravity. In Son of Flubber he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and shoots it through Big Flubbertha (a plastic howitzer that looks...
...Johnny Zhivago), and it is suggested that Alex and his dreadful droogs (gangmates) get their Russian-based special vocabulary by subliminal propaganda. Life for Alex is real horrorshow (just fine-from the Russian kho-rosho?). Alex wears skin-tight black tights, padded pletchoes (shoulders) and real horrorshow boots for kicking. He likes to go to milk bars for the old moloko (milk) or milk-plus, a teen tipple laced with what seems to be mescaline. Thus hyped up, Alex and his hyped-up droogs prowl the town and kick in the keeshkas (tripes) of a lewdie, nearly murder...
...beneath the bluster Ben Bella is more pragmatist than dogmatist, and Algeria's sorry state persuaded him to begin tacking with the Western wind. "He is determined to feed, clothe and employ his people," said one Western diplomat, "and he's going to kick over any 'isms' that...
WHRB will hold a kick-off diner this spring for the campaign to raise $100,000 for its proposed new studios. Under the guidance of James R. Reynolds '22, who handled the $82 million Program for Harvard College, the radio station will first seek large gifts from specific "friends...