Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reading straight from a prepared typescript. But then, eager to give his measured words emphasis, he starts his right hand stirring the air in tight counterclockwise loops. And before long, like one of his new turbocharged cars, he revs up and zooms off, quoting himself, zigzagging between '60s idiom ("flip out," "bummer") and mild profanity, tossing away irreverent asides like empty beer cans. Hyperbole comes naturally, and repeatedly: to the analysts in Detroit, he said Chrysler's admittedly successful mini-van is "the hottest new product . . . in your lifetimes." Says Douglas Fraser: "I'm a hip shooter. I'll admit...
...record industry is controlled by six mega-diskeries: CBS, Warner, RCA, MCA, Capitol and PolyGram. Even so, 20 of last week's 67 % Grammys were won by the products of such offbeat labels as Arhoolie, Top Hits, Reunion and Delos. These names represent the recording business's vibrant flip side, a growing industry of as many as 2,000 small, independent companies...
...court's flip-flop prompted dismay not only among local officials but also among some court observers who think that such an abrupt and emphatic reversal on so important an issue makes a mockery of the judicial function. "This shows the influence of personalities over the rule of law," says University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. "It tends to undermine public confidence in the stability of our justice system." Dissenter Justice Lewis Powell was similarly troubled. "Respect for the authority of this court," he wrote, is "not served by the precipitous overruling of multiple precedents...
...Girl ("Some boys try and some boys lie but/ I don't let them play/ Only boys that save their pennies/ Make my rainy day") are like an endless series of come-ons, all promise and no follow-through. Madonna's whole image, in fact, is like a finger-flip to feminists and earnest liberals. BOY TOY, says one of her most famous accessories, a belt buckle that competes for body space with various pieces of sacred jewelry - crucifixes, rosaries - that seem to be advertising some unholy sacrament...
With due respect for his contribution to the needs of the College, there's also a flip side to John Fox. Not that he hasn't done a fine job of watching out for the College's needs. He has. And it is perhaps because of Fox's notable record that one must pause upon hearing what some of his colleagues had to say, privately, when they heard last week that he will be leaving. I ankly, many House Masters--who work closely with Fox-acknowledged their relief at his upcoming departure. Saying in confidence what those students...