Word: somersault
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Parisi asks about the group’s tumbling experience. “Can any of you do a somersault...
...were prominent leaders of the Bolshevik takeover: Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev. Never mind that Lenin, the real Mr. Big, was no more Jewish than Hohmann. Never mind that thousands of Jewish communists were purged and murdered by Stalin. The Jews had done it, and now to Hohmann's dialectical somersault: Of course, this verdict "may sound horrible," he mused, but after all, isn't this precisely the "same logic" that led to the stigmatization of Germany as a "nation of perpetrators?" For non-Germans, this screed cries out for decoding. The unspoken logic is this: if the Jews were...
Excuse me, readers, while I "Soap Up the Hawg!" [Here your correspondent "rhythmically" jerks his arms around, stands on one leg and then rolls over in a somersault...
...ronique: In a sweet, southern-tinged voice, Amy explains that we’re going to do stunts, in which extremely tiny girls (“fliers”) are flung into the air, do a somersault, and are then caught by strong, capable people. I am clearly not one of these people, but am assigned to catch anyway. In a position usually intended for large, supple men, I am a disaster. I lack the strength to propel my flier into the air. After a few tries, and boosted by the saccharine encouragements of the team...
...doesn't do all his own stunts." A few weeks ago, the universe's top action star acknowledged that, if a movie requires him to "ride an F-16 jet fighter, or to jump over a series of hurdles with a crazy horse, or to perform two 720-degree somersaults," he will hand the job to a younger daredevil. "But one somersault, I'll do it myself...