Word: flipperize
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...country's hardest-working prepubescent is making Charlotte's Web after she's done with War of the Worlds. These days, she wears a flipper--a dental device--to cover up the holes from the baby teeth she's finally losing. Once the big teeth come in, Fanning will probably refuse to take any more roles as children. It's part of the plan. --By Joel Stein/Los Angeles
...Clowes, Joe Sacco, Jason Lutes, Julie Doucet and tens of others. The best pieces match the cartoonist with the material. Carol Moiseiwitsch's splattery black and white imagery lends a horrifying intensity to "Fatal Fellatio." Peter Bagge, of "Hate" fame, punches up several tales, including one about a flipper fetishist, with his loopy graphics...
...America, rich and poor, like partisan and bad driver, are terms we reserve for people besides ourselves. Ask a banker and a burger flipper, and they will both tell you that they're middle-class. So it is too on TV. Once, prime time had populist fun with the differences between rich and poor Americans (The Beverly Hillbillies, Good Times, Dallas). But by the late 1990s, both struggling workers and scheming, zillionaire J.R. types had become fewer, replaced by the characters in middle-class soaps (Dawson's Creek) and the cappuccino-quaffing likes of Frasier, Friends and Will & Grace...
...wonderful student of modern history,” Conley said. “[But] we’ve had to put up with his affiliation with Flipper and the Miami Dolphins, and Brad certainly knows how to rub salt in the wounds of this...
...Oyamada's whole career, somehow, seems like a whim that has grown into a full-time job. Even the inspiration for his pseudonym was arrived at by happenstance. For several nights following Flipper's Guitar's breakup in 1991, Oyamada would come home late and zone out in front of the TV, watching old Planet of the Apes series reruns...