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Everyone here seems to run around an awful lot but you don't really wave. That simple upward flip of the hand just doesn't cut it. Do you think tail wagging is effortless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...says he has tested the benefits of combining alcohol and academics, writing his thesis while drinking a beer. Anna M. Harr '99, a women's studies concentrator, bought children's flip sunglasses with fish-shaped lenses, which she dons when she works on her thesis...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Down to the Wire: Last Minute Tales of Thesis Trauma | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...lighter than its 3.2-lb. cousin, as well as $100 cheaper. But I'd buy the Tripad, which has a larger (9.4-in.) screen and an easier-to-use keyboard. The Tripad's screen pivots on two arms, so you can flip it down over the keyboard and use it for, say, data entry. This feature is less useful to me than to a UPS guy perhaps or a tax accountant. Still, I enjoyed the flexibility of positioning the screen just where I wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Kneetop PCs | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...movie (and play) demonstrate throughout an irreverent playfulness with language as if it were an assumed meaningless jargon. Spacey's Mickey clarifies the distinction between "flip" and "sarcastic"; Chazz Palmenteri's actor-99.44 percent consisting of repressed fury--seeks some solace in the exact conceptual phrasing of "karma"; and then there's Eddie's kabbalistic Merriam-Webster romp. Some bits are even a little reminiscent of a Coen screenplay, the way the guys repeat and throw this or that phrase around like an exotic football...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hurlyburly: Revisiting the 80s | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...aerogel is packed into a collector that resembles a circular ice-cube tray about a foot across. En route to Wild 2, one side will trap dust that's wafting in from beyond the solar system--another item of great interest to astronomers--and once there, it will flip to scoop up comet dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close Encounter with a Comet | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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