Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...misplaced allegiances are not without justification, though. By denying his links with the West. Austin is seeking also to escape his and Lee's parents, who represent a warped flip side of the American dream. Their father, who remains offstage, is a drunkard who once put his false teeth in a doggie bag filled with chow mein, and then left the bag in a bar along a Mexican highway. Their mother, who returns from Alaska in the final scene, is perfectly tacky, uncomprehending, and well-meaning. She appears terribly excited because she read in a newspaper that Picasso is visiting...
...sets off for a day's campaigning. The heat, brilliant and soaking, comes soon after first light. On the edge of a town, the caravan shudders to a stop. The candidates pile onto the flatbed back of a pickup truck, smear on dabs of melting suntan cream and flip the switch of a cassette player. To the scratchy strains of martial music, they start downhill, making a short tour and ending up under the spreading roots of the giant ceiba trees, planted to provide a parasol of shade over the baking town square. The little parade passes by rusting...
...touched off another minor furor. Faced with a repeat offender in a pickpocket case, Friess proposed a novel way to set the sentence. He offered the defendant the chance to toss a coin: heads for 30 days, tails for 20. The coin came up tails. Friess's flip approach piqued the district attorney. But the judge would not budge...
...Their kick-back style, Frisbees, and flip-flops not withstanding, most [U.C.-San Diego students] are exceptionally serious students. They just happen to prefer beaches as well as books...
...swimming and extensive physical therapy brought her all the way back to the 1980 Ivy League Championships. There she qualified for Easterns, but luck was against her. At the Eastern, she reinjured her knee doing a flip-turn but still managed to finish her race and qualify for the National Championships...