Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money and handles their taxes. He is a specialist in tax shelters and, although self-taught in that field, now lectures on the subject at California C.P.A. seminars. Says Rogers: "I always tell my clients up front nothing is perfect. I'm human; I make mistakes." One recent slip-up was the loss of "less than $100,000" in an Oklahoma oil well that wasn...
...imbedded in the basic joke of the plot (quailing before Otto da Fe, the Earl of Fourflush who announces that he won't be satisfied "until everyone is dead," one of the heroines vainly offers so "give you my silver gold-piece") that it's more than likely to slip by unnoticed, or to register only a few minutes later, when the show has already gone on to something else. There are also some lovely visual puns: the royal coach is announced, and then jogs in in a sweatshirt, blowing his whistle; the Princess Purins makes her first entrance "idly...
...movie classic, Citizen Kane, a powerful profile closely based on the life and times of Founder-Despot William Randolph Hearst. For 33 years, even after the boss's death in 1951, the Hearst newspapers scrupulously observed his edict and barred Welles from their pages-except for an occasional slip, usually followed by an editorial inquiry. Then six months ago Entertainment Editor Ray Loynds of the Hearst Los Angeles Herald-Examiner began the vindication of Welles on his own initiative by finally reviewing Citizen Kane on the movie page. Now his Hearstian rehabilitation moved onward and upward into the front...
...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 start to charge...
There is risk in skating out to trim the angle. If the goalie only deflects the puck, an opponent may slip behind him to flip a rebound into the open net. Should he glide beyond the crease, the goalie is subject to the bone-rattling body checks that players use to knock opponents out of the play. Parent usually manages to avoid these griefs by trapping the puck cleanly or deflecting it toward the corner with his stick...