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Even now, every American response to Soviet reforms is in some way a product of that Cold War view. If it isn't a victory of us over them, it's a flip-flop of that, an enlightened cry for a move of us toward them. Even as the chroniclers of current events proclaim the Cold War to be over, our mental worlds are all still marked by an East-West split...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Why Us Versus Them Still Matters | 2/14/1990 | See Source »

...feel obligated to respond to the staff position because it has flip-flopped the issue. It has taken the moral high ground on bathroom sex and public indecency and neglected to respond to the more serious and fundamental issue of discrimination...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Insensitivity Unjustifiable | 2/8/1990 | See Source »

...That was one important reason the N.R.A. lost its battle to repeal a Maryland law that set up a Governor-appointed committee to prohibit certain handguns. The gun lobby enraged Governor William Donald Schaefer, a supporter of the law, by distributing a broadsheet that accused him of "untruths" and "flip-flops." That made the popular Schaefer so angry that he became an active campaigner against the N.R.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Fire | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...this "Land of Fuck" where Jong locates Any Woman's Blues, both as a title and as a concept. While Jong claims that the book "has as its theme a woman's search for a way out of addictive love and toward real selflove," the protagonist continues to flip back and forth between emotional and physical addiction, with a clear bent towards the physical...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: In Search of Sexual Healing | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

Like an unpleasant alarm, the banging eventually wakes me up. Unlike an unpleasant alarm, the banging doesn't disappear with the flip of a switch. It keeps going...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Why in My Backyard? | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

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