Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such a judgment-day device is risky, to be sure. In the hands of a lesser writer it could be self-defeatingly simplistic; in Moore's hands it comes off convincingly triumphant. Fergus has recurring moments of flip inner torment: "God, how do other writers deal with these situations? How did, say, Faulkner manage to come out here time after time and take the money and run . . .? The thought of Faulkner steadied Fergus, for Faulkner had endured and prevailed. ... If Faulkner started seeing his dead parents first thing in the morning, he would settle right in and make...
...charming example Kaplan produced last Spring. At the risk of seeming anal, let me point out that a feature composed of fake postcards ostensibly meant to trick freshmen into sending their radical intentions to various bad guys of the right has the addresses on the wrong side when you flip the page...
...most promising variety hour -and in fact the liveliest premiere of any description all week-was the Flip Wilson Show (NBC). Flip is black and cool, and the first night played as easily off David Frost as James Brown. He does not do quotable one-liners but routines, of which the standards include a sassy drag bit and his "Church of What's Happening Now" sermon...
...superintendent and a politician. As leader of the left wing of the small Free Democratic Party, he served five years as Development Aid Minister through two governments; his staying power was such that he dubbed himself "the Mikoyan of the F.D.P." It was he who led the F.D.P. to flip-flop from right to left, and was instrumental in forming the coalition that brought Willy Brandt to the chancellorship last October. His only concession to the formality of his new post was to forsake his sporty blue BMW for the properly ministerial black Mercedes limousine...
...sunny weekend at Chesapeake Bay or the ocean beyond, the clogged approaches to Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge regularly add two or three hours to the Saturday morning journey. When traffic halts, motorists unlimber lunch baskets, folding chairs and martini shakers, and the picnic begins. Kids flip Frisbees while their elders chat. Those dreaded approaches may be the world's longest, narrowest picnic grounds...