Word: somersault
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After high school, the young comic did an existential somersault. He enrolled in Long Beach State and studied philosophy "like crazy." He recalls: "I got to a point where I could no longer speak." When after three years he began reading Ludwig Wittgenstein, who declared that if philosophical problems are solved, "little is achieved," Martin dropped back into show business. But he still likes to ponder philosophical problems. "I know all the important ethical questions," he tells audiences, "like is it O.K. to yell movie in a crowded firehouse...
...just not in the cards. An acute shyness alone does not separate Carrie from her classmates; evoking the image of another teenage girl of recent vintage who is "somehow different," Carrie is endowed with a power not commonly found among us mortals--the power of telekinesis. Ashtrays somersault, mirrors vibrate and shatter--and the camera's close-ups on Carrie erase all doubts as to the source of these phenomena...
...buildings, gets roughed up in fight scenes and tumbles from speeding cars on Quincy, Gemini Man and Baretta, among other television shows. Doubling for a villain on the Bionic Woman, she speeds neck and neck with Lindsay Wagner in a dune-buggy chase before losing spectacularly in a sandy somersault. In Airport 77, a recycled crash caper, she torpedoes through the high waters of a flooding aircraft cabin to rescue a small...
...grande dame v. the showgirl v. the teenybopper. As the experts see it, the women's gymnastics competition in Montreal is a three-way toss-up-with a half-twist, double back somersault, of course. Returning to defend her championship in what has become the glamour-girl event for Olympic TV audiences is Russia's Ludmilla Turishcheva, 23, the all-round competition gold-medalist at Munich, renowned for her controlled grace and classical repertory. The cameraman's favorite will be Turishcheva's celebrated teammate, Firefly Olga Korbut, 21, who flipped, tumbled, smiled and cried both herself...
...cloud of darkness and swirling smoke, surrounded by a small zoo of reptiles and other phantasmagoric creatures played by dancers. The staging of the final battle between the Christians and the Saracens is a novel affair that can only be called aero-choreography: dancers and acrobats pirouette, somersault, tumble and flip high above the stage in stylized but effective combat. All the while, Home, as Rinaldo, looks on from atop a grim, menacing war machine. It is a memorable image...