Word: somersaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film, but the stage skills of the cast speak a universal language. Masked and bearded for their roles, the actors show their youth only in their piping voices. They are prodigious acrobats. Li-Pu's groom does not scale an enemy wall; he vaults over it with a somersault. The soldiers' duels mate the formality of ballet with the split-second timing of a trapeze act. Girls make ribbons of cloth hiss, curl and swirl through the air like rainbow-colored py thons. The evening's most exquisite miming re-creates a boat trip upriver. Using only...
Invisible Stunts. Points are awarded in sport parachuting both for accuracy (trying to hit the exact center of the 328-ft. target area from as high as 1,500 meters) and style, in which sky divers somersault and turn by waggling their outstretched arms. The classic form for a sustained free fall is an ecstatic swan dive, the jumper falling spread-eagled and belly down, his back deeply arched. A roll of the head, a dip of the hands, a hunch of the shoulders-any movement will alter his fall. The body acts as a primitive airfoil and expert...
Sophomore Jay Shelton put on his best diving performance of the year as he easily eclipsed his sole Lion opponent. His executions of a forward two-and-one-half somersault and an inward one-and-one-half somersault drew seven's from the judges and wild applause from the stands...
...Davis lost his crankcase and piled into the retaining wall. Recklessly trying to sneak past Davis' stalled car, Rookie Driver A. J. Shepherd spun directly into the path of Jack Turner's onrushing Bardhal Special. Turner's car flipped through the air in a slow somersault, spewing parts in all directions, and crunched back onto the track. Before officials could flag them down, two other drivers slammed into the smoldering wreckage. No driver was seriously hurt, and when the track was cleared, the 500 settled into a two-car race. In front, by a slim...
...world's No. 1 bobsledder is a coal-and-ice dealer from Cortina, Italy. Eugenio Monti, 32, broke both legs in a skiing accident years ago; one cheek is deeply scarred from a splintering crash two years ago at St. Moritz, when his sled turned a double-somersault. "Brakes?" snorts Monti. "You should use them only to stop at the finish...