Word: flipness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flip-flop made for a cool reception at the presidential Malacanang Palace. Habib twice met with Marcos. On the first visit, the President handed Habib alleged photographic evidence of ballot stealing by Aquino supporters. Afterward, Habib had no comment, but Marcos said the veteran troubleshooter had assured him that the U.S. "was not in any way telling us how to run our affairs." Habib was similarly silent after a 55-minute visit with Aquino. The meeting was apparently cordial but ended on a somber note as Aquino reiterated her position that a truce with Marcos was impossible. Said...
Because Harvard and Dartmouth completed the regular season in a 9-3 tie, a coin toss was held Sunday morning, with the winner of the flip awarded the option of home court advantage throughout the tournament or a first-round...
When Harvard netminder Jennifer White's attemptto clear Les's blast hit one of her defenders'skates, Corcoran--who fell to the ice with theeffort--was able to flip a wobbling-duck shot overWhite's outstretched...
...moment, though, Will Hearst's flip line to his grandfather's ghost about not knowing what he is doing draws some uneasy smiles in the newsroom. Seven months after hiring a new editor for the paper, Hearst fired him two weeks ago and named himself to the post. Image, the four-month-old Sunday magazine, is so far ill focused. And the Examiner, perpetual afternoon also- ran to the morning Chronicle (circ. 554,000, vs. 150,000) has failed to gain new readers...
...least expected was traumatic for a pampered bourgeois culture--a society in which the old and the sick are pushed out of sight and out of mind and to which the unreality of video violence and fatality is but an image, which can be erased with the flip of a switch. Here was full-color, live video death--the real thing, something that did not disappear with the images on a TV screen...