Word: flipness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will return to serve on religious boards, to head city planning commissions, sit on the bench, flip pancakes at school breakfasts and raise children. We will return, sometimes in spite of the best-laid plans, because we wonder who will act if we do not. We will think of how our communities could benefit from the liberal education we have received. And we will know that we have a responsibility to give back to the towns that raised...
...supporters are quick to point out that the flip side of the coin is that his product is quintessentially black, and many say his greatest success is transmitting this culture to the larger world...
...magazine is actually a freakish parody of contemporary conservative thought, or its whiny writers really fancy themselves to be the anointed defenders of Western civilization from the post-modern and multicultural hordes. Undergraduate conservatives are constantly publishing articles that are so offensive that it is appropriate to occasionally flip them the written equivalent of a middle finger...
...call girl and believed that Clare?s surest way to escape from poverty was by marrying money. She found work with the publisher Cond? Nast, initially at Vogue but more brilliantly at Vanity Fair, where she became managing editor. One of her first contributions to the magazine was a flip little profile of Time?s co-founder Henry R. Luce. They married in 1935. His magazines prospered, including Life, which she virtually invented, but, to her bitter disappointment, was not allowed to edit. And despite mixed reviews, her plays were popular successes. But as ?Rage for Fame? ends, with Clare...
...artist named Pat Powers, Walt Disney agreed to let Powers distribute his cartoons. Mickey Mouse was an instant star, but Disney saw little cash from Powers. From this he learned to trust no one. Walt's invaluable animator, Ub Iwerks, learned less. Powers lured him away to make Flip the Frog cartoons, and Iwerks sold his 20% share in Disney for $2,920. Today that stock would be worth perhaps half a billion dollars...