Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students themselves say they are not displeased to be living in a "jock" dorm, or with roommates who are of similar race or academic interest. But, on the flip side, they say that they would not recommend homogeneous groupings College-wide, affirming the administration's basic commitment to diversity and integration...
...fact that the President drove in didn't help the situation any). And you could forgive space shuttle Discovery's army of technicians some jitters as they pumped in more than 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen fuel. As the agency freely admits, there was a flip side to all this positive publicity. If there's a bug in the system, the whole world is watching...
...analysts -- pessimists or optimists -- should they interview? Because a heavily invested America will know about it instantly. And with the sound of a thousand talking heads buzzing in its collective ear, the next Great Depression (or the next harmless Black Monday of 1987) could be decided by a coin flip...
...never know who you might meet. The flip side of that coin is that you might meet someone you'd rather not have invading your room. In that case, if the music is loud enough and it is dark enough, you can just pretend you never saw the interloper. Perhaps the "Wow, this wall is really interesting" maneuver should not be discounted...
...songs so glamorous and well-arranged it was easy to ignore their startling edges of regret and emotional maturity. Discovering his work last year for the first time, I found myself caught up in the sensitivity of his songs, which could pack an lifetime of hurt into a flip rhyme and an abrupt meter change. Only Bacharach, for instance, could interpose the cheerful mood of "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" with its underlying theme of disillusionment and the unspoken death of big dreams; while the arrangement glistens with organ bursts and the light trace of strings...