Word: ricochet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ricochet...
...Phinney scored again in the third stanza, and Bill Bellows curved in from his left wing position in the final period to ricochet a shot off a Lord Jeff defender and into the goal...
Dressed in a white tuxedo with black bellbottoms, Soloist Yamash'ta shuffled onto the stage, crouched behind his instruments while Ozawa unleashed a brass-heavy fanfare. After a menacing roll on the bass drum, Yamash'ta picked up speed and energy, began to ricochet from one instrument to another. Hair flopping, arms flying, he nudged, banged, tickled and teased the instruments. At one point he flailed away with both hands, simultaneously blowing onto bamboo sticks, kicking the prayer bells and rubbing his body frenziedly against the gongs. After it was all over, the audience gave him a standing...
...Sweet Music Fills the Heart is an unlikely title for an even more unlikely movie. Part parody, part pornography, part romantic melodrama with a musical number or two thrown in for good measure, People is a surrealistic practical joke on the audience. Characters contradict themselves, and individual scenes ricochet crazily off one another, effectively destroying most logic and all dramatic continuity. Out of this carefully crafted chaos comes a film that is by turns boring, arch and gratifyingly funny...
...fortune from manufacturing has liberated Oklahoma's John Zink, a Hemingwayesque character who thrives in feudal splendor on a 10,000-acre ranch near Tulsa. Zink used to greet guests by firing a revolver into the beams of his baronial office, but stopped doing so when a ricochet almost hit his secretary. One night, when a Supreme Court Justice came to visit, Zink released a coon and a pack of hounds in the middle of dinner. Another original is Seattle's Lorenzo Milam, who lives on a houseboat, runs the Jean-Paul Sartre Memorial No Exit Roominghouse, teaches...