Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alright--so some of the people have their flip sides, they're a little flaky, and they sometimes say non-serious things, but by and large, and I can say this on the basis of 24 years of covering R&R, these people are some of the nicest, most serious in the world...
...Enough flip talk," more sensitive cineastes will now protest. "This is serious stuff," they will say: it's the heart-rending saga of how, as Tom Milne wrote in the Monthly Film Bulletin, "Ewa becomes enmeshed by a life of degradation and crime, yet herself remains essentially uncontaminated throughout, protected by the purity of her singleminded pursuit of love...
...that. That's going to require some additional study, and I don't want to be flip about it. I don't want to mislead anyone, but the work on it is well under way, and between now and Jan. 20 a lot of work will have been done with advisers, obviously, but also with people like Senator Russell Long and Congressman Al Ullman [respectively, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee]. I would guess that it would take several months of next year before we could come forward...
...again, and upon receiving the voluminous ballot said airily, "I don't know what you'd do with all this except paper a barn." Behind the blue curtains she obviously relegated the long list of constitutional changes to the barn: she was closeted only long enough to flip the one lever she cared about...
When Carter began full-time campaigning after Labor Day, he immediately ran into trouble. Because private opinion polls showed that many voters feared he might be too liberal, Carter swung around; he tried to sound more conservative and only lent credence to Republican charges that he flip-flopped on the issues. He staked out three slightly differing positions on grain embargoes; he spoke of ambitious new programs and of balancing the budget; he painted an almost Depression-like picture of the U.S. economy that many people perceived as unreal. In a year of skepticism about politicians, he was beginning...