Word: spins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...form of rebellion against smother love and all its safety, a final plunge to freedom from childhood dependency. Others theorize latent death wishes or the need to act out and exorcise fears. For some, the motivation is simpler. Two years after he crossed the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh took a spin on the Coney Island Cyclone, one of the oldest roller coasters still in operation (it is celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer). Later, he testified: "A ride on Cyclone is a greater thrill speed." After half a century, the thrill -and the terror-of the Cyclone and its more modern...
Director Peter Mark Schifter maintains a fast pace. He wisely realizes that if he relaxes even momentarily, this spirited farce will fall down, like a top that has lost its spin...
...appreciate the obstacles ahead for our new energy boss. The idea of energy conservation for many people is leaving the lights off at home and taking the dinosaur in the driveway out for a 70-m.p.h. spin on the freeway...
...pillars of Catholicism and--always--the family priests, eager to anchor all that money and prestige to the firm rock of the Church. It's the stuff of which grand anecdotes are made, and Corry makes the most of his material. At the drop of a shilleleagh, he can spin off a neat character sketch that will leave all who have ever seen a Barry Fitzgerald movie shaking their heads in recognition. Perhaps the most striking is his portrait of Tom Murray, the staunch champion of Catholicism who insisted that each daughter and her beau say an entire rosary before...
...eagle putts spin out of the cup on the sixth and 14th, a pair of par fives. Vik came within a heartbeat of acing the 181-yd. 15th hole when he slapped a six-iron onto the punchbowl green within three feet...