Word: flipness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carolina ?- and he can?t afford to be that fat a target for conservative Republicans." And that?s not the worst of it. This goof, says Carney, was particularly bad because it was McCain that made it. "McCain?s central appeal is that he doesn?t pander, doesn?t flip-flop, shoots straight and consequences be damned," he says. "Now some of that is gone, and he?s angered the right...
They seem to realize that the flip side of phenomenon is fluke. Blair Witch, a film that antagonizes as many folks as it enthralls, could be as fleeting a fad as Deely Bobbers, and with no profound meaning for the future of film--except perhaps that struggling filmmakers with a marketable attitude will for a short, happy time be overpaid by studio bosses hoping against reason for another Blair Witch...
...said to be "livid" (New York power brokers are always getting "livid"--that's part of the fun), even though they must know she needs time before she can break with the President on an issue like Medicare. "She's married to the guy--she can't just flip a switch and become a noisy fighter for New York," says an adviser. "It's got to be gradual, appropriate and reasonable." But New York, as Hillary well knows, has never been a reasonable place. It has a way of making you shout, even when all you want...
...crowded restaurant. He did not seem destined for power, like Jack or Bobby or Teddy, and he did not seem to mind that a bit. Now he may have joined their legacy in another way, as a partner in the tragedy that is the chilling flip side of this family's status as American royalty. It seems it cannot skip a generation...
...Clinton had made a splash on a Mideast trip by calling a Palestinian state "inevitable." Last Friday she penned a letter to a leading Jewish group unequivocally declaring Jerusalem ? which both Israelis and Palestinians claim as their capital ? the "eternal and indivisible capital of Israel." Hillary?s first flip-flop? "More like an obligatory pander," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley. "The two things aren?t mutually exclusive ?- this just means the Palestinian capital wouldn?t be Jerusalem." Pooley figures she?s done minimal damage ? with the peace-minded Barak in power in Israel, New York?s Jewish and Arab...