Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanoi Hilton" (get captured). The three out of four who do get back and manage to complete 100 missions win membership in an elite club that now numbers in the hundreds. When a pilot hits the magic mark, his fellow pilots and flight mechanics roll out the red carpet for his return, give him a rousing, horn-honking parade of fire trucks and maintenance vehicles. In turn, he provides a bottle of champagne, then forks out a month's combat pay that night for drinks all around...
...twang of Indian music, formerly known to Americans exclusively through Ravi Shankar and his sitar, has suffused popular music. The product is "raga-rock," a sound that distinguishes the new Los Angeles and San Francisco groups which are setting the pace of current rock 'n' roll...
John Tyson, like Chickenman, seems to be "everywhere, everywhere." When Rucker juggled a 17-yard pass on the Harvard 11 in the second quarter, Tyson snatched it away and scampered 15 yards. When Thornton seemed about to waltz into the Crimson end-zone on a six-yard roll out around left end early in the fourth quarter, Tyson came from out of nowhere to drop him on the one-yard line. Driven almost by instinct on a second-and-8 play in the same quarter, Tyson moved up from safety to stop Smith's slant off tackle for no gain...
...second appalling thing about the play was the audience which laughed at it. When the crowd roars as one at a line like, "Your sex life is like a continual winetasting: you roll 'em around and spit 'em out"--then you begin to wonder about the audience and forget your morbid curiosity about the author...
...rock-'n'-roll quintet, its sounds brutally amplified, screeches and howls. The dancers enact their love ritual, while a filmed psychedelic view of their actions is projected-elongated, distorted and weirdly colored-on the wavering backdrop. "This is what we're doing," the action in the foreground seems to say. "And this is what we feel we're doing," proclaims the film. At the end, passions spent, the man walks through the billowing drop and out a series of backstage doors; Astarte recedes into the shadows, awaiting her next visitor. In his new Astarte, Choreographer-Director...