Word: somersault
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ride down the road with him and he may bet you $100 that you would not jump out of the car and turn a quick somersault. Hole up in a hotel room with him and he will invent a betting game that involves tossing tennis balls over a curtain rod. Ask him to play golf with a tennis racket and he will not only oblige but win. Show up at one of his tennis matches and he may line you up for a side bet. Want to play him yourself? What kind of handicap do you want? A wet Bulgarian...
...University of Maryland's fieldhouse is jammed and jumping. As the Terrapins trot onto the court, the 20-piece pep band belts out the Maryland fight song. Cheerleaders somersault into the air. Pompon girls wiggle and wave. Then suddenly an expectant hush falls over the crowd as the public-address announcer booms, "And now . . . heeerrre's Lefty!" Pandemonium again breaks loose, the band strikes up Hail to the Chief and out shuffles Charles Grice ("Lefty") Driesell, the loose, lanky (6ft. 4-in.) Maryland basketball coach. He is wearing a $250 double-knit suit and the "aw-shucks" grin...
...Wall comes with the last pages bound by a yellow paper band, slim but snug, that boasts that anyone who "can resist the startling ending" should return the book to the publishers, band still intact, for full reimbursement. Such a stunt may deflect attention from a contrived Freudian somersault about an attorney whose sordid sexual history makes a formidably damaging brief in his own nightmarish, fantasy trial for murder...
...swimming coach telephones the parents of one of his team members: "I have some good news for you. Your son George just broke the Intercollegiate triple somersault high-diving record. I also have to tell you that I have some bad news. There was no water in the pool...
...gravel-larynxed Lionel Stander are playing a couple of gangsters, and four Maltese cats are masquerading as Mae West, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich. But what really catches the Zeitgeist of those crazy days is the bit where Rooney gets shot and Stander does a backward somersault into the pool to surface in the middle of a floating...