Word: flipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...description of the incident however is a good example of what sometimes makes the book hard to stomach. His flip sense of the absurd made him a good quote but hurts him as a narrator. Selling Carbo hurt him deeply but he tells the story for laughs...
What's startling is that Travers has maintained a consistent, still idealistic philosophy for social things while so many of her musician/activist colleagues have switched allegiances, flip-flops from credo to credo, or simply given up. Travers compares fighting for social change to the struggle of a folk song's hero or heroine. The message is "you can push for change now, but look for evidence later, often much later. There's this concept of 'paying your dues,' which everyone must go through. The same is true for social change; there's no painless solution...
...flip side of Repo Man's bizarreness emerges in the next few scenes, wherein we are introduced to the film's chief protagonist, a young suburban punk called Otto. Otto is rootless, aimless, unhinged--of this we are made painfully aware. We meet him first in a supermarket, where he is getting fired from his job, but the scene quickly shifts to outside an L.A. home where a gang of punks are into some serious slam-dancing action. The scene and music (solid hardcore) immediately conjure up the rage of Decline, the late great documentary about the L.A. punk scene...
...this year, after adjustment for inflation, but Western Europe's will grow only 2.5%. As a result, the U.S. is sucking in imports at a prodigious pace, while Europe is too weak to buy a matching amount of American exports. The U.S. trade balance with Western Europe has flip-flopped from an $18.6 billion surplus in 1980 to a deficit that has been running at a rate of $17.6 billion this year...
Shamie, for his part, insists that he is not being overzealous in his attacks on the more subdued Richardson. "The nature of my attacks deals with specific positions, issues, it's not personal, and I don't think anyone should resent the fact that I point out that he flip-flops from one position to another, that he opposes President Reagan on major issues." Shamie said in an interview last week. "That's not an attack, that's simply a description of our differences on the issues...