Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...About the only good words for it now emanate from Ronald Reagan and certain beer commercials. Those ads are splendidly mythic playlets, romantic idealizations of men in groups who blast through mountains or pour plumingly molten steel in factories, the work all grit and grin. Then they retire to flip around iced cans of sacramental beer and debrief one another in a warm sundown glow of accomplishment. As for Reagan, in his presidential campaign he enshrined work in his rhetorical "community of values," along with family, neighborhood, peace and freedom. He won by a landslide...
...meant to them. Santoli's reluctance to judge his fellow soldiers, as indicated by the almost non-existent biographies, comes off as diffidence and an abdication of responsibility. Even worse, the meager descriptions are tucked in the back of the book (and incorrectly alphabetized), so one must constantly flip back and forth to see who is talking. This mistake is particularly unfortunate because it hurts the collection's best asset--its penetrating and hypnotizing rhythm...
...Crimson stole an early 3-0 lead with Robbie Wheeler setting the pace at number-six singles. In less than an hour, Wheeler dispatched Flip Rubin 6-0, 6-2. "The guy's awesome," said a stunned Rubin at the match...
Three times in three innings they got one. When Brandeis loaded the bases without a hit in the second, Curtin got Dwayne Follette to ground to Bauer, who started the twin killing with a flip to Lyman. When the southpaw walked Ray DiCarlo with nobody out in the third. Bauer was there again to scoop up a bouncer and shovel to second...
...Fellini anyway, male fear of the castrating female-though it must be said that he is weirdly fairminded. Snaporaz finds refuge in a castle whose owner turns out to be a male chauvinist of the most repulsive sort. A gallery contains photos of his many conquests: when you flip on the light behind each picture, you get a tape recording of the women's erotic moans...