Word: spin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anger Uses Energy. Using "lots of spins and changes of pace," Gonzalez won the first set at the service line. "I used to hit aces out of sheer power," he explains. "Now I hit them out of deception." Though he lost the next two sets, he began to establish a pattern: "La-ver's not a very tall fellow and I felt that if I could get my lob going when he came to the net, I could work him pretty hard and penetrate more with a passing shot." In the final two sets the steady punching began...
After watching Petkevich complete a routine highlighted by a flying-open axle sit spin, champion Wood said that Pelkevich is "the most dynamic skater that the U.S. has seen in a long time...
...snow. The water mill hangs stiff with icicles. The rivers wait, as if struck by some icy thought. A woman with fagots on her head hurries across a bridge (see detail, page 53). Upon the ice, the polished green crust of earth's secret blood, some skate, others spin tops, and still others play at curling, with faint cries...
Since reversal is the key to Charlie's prominence, it is only proper for him to pull the ultimate switch in films. Formerly, animated cartoon characters -such as Donald Duck or Bugs Bunny -would begin their existence in the movies, then spin off into comics. Charlie was born back in 1949 as a newspaper feature. Only now, after six TV specials and a happily long-running off-Broadway musical, has he backed into a full-length animated cartoon, A Boy Named Charlie Brown...
...been drawing standing-room-only audiences on a speaking tour of U.S. campuses. The visit coincided with the publication of the first English translation of The Book of Imaginary Beings. An alphabetically arranged, cross-cultural bestiary of both famous and faintly known monsters and apparitions, Beings is a spin-off from Borges' vast scholarship. The reader is invited to consider such symbolic creatures as the Basilisk, a remote cousin of Medusa, which kills with its stare. Closer to home is the Pennsylvania Squonk, which dissolves in its own tears when captured. There is also that symbol of incongruity...