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Word: flips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flip side of the Currier Complex panels is that if any other tower has an alarm, Daniels, which is on the other side of the Lower Main, will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concern Over Fire Security Overstated | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

Apart from such bizarre moments, the circus is generally good, but for one awkward--even offensive--episode involving a clown-cum-high-wire artist. Falling into the net after a failed flip, the performer feigned wetting his pants (note the recurring urine theme) and said, inexplicably, "I don't speak English." He then pretended to go hand himself on a nearby rope. Parents in the audience must have been horrified...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, | Title: A Circus Maximus for All Ages | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...video was made by Christopher Ciccone, still most famous for being Madonna's brother but slowly making a name in the dance-video business as well. The idea of juxtaposing Dolly's bubbly singing and the rhythm-heavy grooves of the nocturnal crowd belongs to Kyle Utley, president of Flip-It Records, and Parton's just one of the artists he has in his sights. Also on his hit list: a funked-up remix of Rickie Lee Jones' Living It Up; and a song, Relax!, with Zsa Zsa Gabor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 7, 1997 | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...Dartboard finished two midterms. a column and a host of interviews the other day and decided to reward herself with a flip through some magazines...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: MARXISM IN THE STARS | 3/21/1997 | See Source »

Suddenly, the forest corner has come alive. An unseen fan whirs on and begins to flip the pages of the book, which actually have letters printed upon them in ferric sulfate. Tea, or tannic acid, drips from the oak leaves and unites with the letters to form ink. According to Reynolds, "The wind is in effect writing itself, because the text is in onomato-poetic sounds of the wind." Thus, the figurative becomes the literal, and the metaphors that spring to mind when one first peers through the bubble windows reach a new and wonderful level...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

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