Word: somersaulters
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...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...
...question remained, however, whether Gierek's somersault on prices would embolden other workers to make fresh demands next week or the week after. The Polish press launched a campaign obviously inspired by the regime to warn Poles that the latest concessions "reached the absolute last boundary...
...twelfth, the Reds' Pete Rose singled, advanced to second, and then came barreling for home on a single to centerfield by the Cubs' Jim Hickman. His way blocked by the Indians' Ray Fosse, Rose hurtled headlong into the burly catcher, knocked him into a somersault and landed splat on the plate for the winning run. "If I had slid," Rose said after the National League's 5-to-4 victory, "I would have broken both legs." As it was, Rose suffered a bruised thigh and Fosse a severely wrenched shoulder-injuries that will temporarily sideline both...