Word: flipness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost like an imposed coin-flip," Levy says. "We didn't have a burning desire to jump into terrorist warfare against Americans...
...yearbook is a nostalgia producer--you buy it so that in 30 years you can flip through the pages and remember your Harvard years. You can sit your grandchildren on your knees, point to your face in the varsity soccer picture and reminisce about the day you saved by booting in the tie-breaking goal. Or you can grin and sigh as you find a candid shot of your old roommates beaning each other with rotten vegetables in the Adams House Raft Race...
...Bertagna recognized that scores of current and former athletes would pick up his Crimson chronicle at the bookstore and flip straight...
...century ago, according to corporate lore, John Styth Pemberton, 55, a surgeon and analytical chemist, whomped up the first batch of Coke's magic elixir in his Atlanta backyard, using a three-legged brass kettle and an oar. Now, almost exactly a year after the seemingly disastrous flip- flop decision to change the formula of the world's best-selling soft drink, Coca-Cola has emerged bigger, wealthier and vastly more diversified than ever before. Reflecting that fact, Coca-Cola stock closed last week at 111 1/8, nearly 70% higher than a year ago. Exults Crawford Johnson, a Birmingham Coca...
...writing a check. But Bergman settles for stale attempts at satire about city dwellers vs. suburbanites, trendy vs. square relations, rich vs. poor ones. The actors struggle to give the play life, but there is only one moment of insight. As Thomas' ever irreverent husband, Silver says, "I'm flip, which is another way of being shy." Perhaps that is Bergman's problem, and it is surely the problem of a weary genre: plenty of wisecracks but not much wisdom. W.A.H...