Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sport requires tremendous devotion at an early age, but a youngster who desires to be the best on ice faces special demands. Serious training can easily cost $40,000 a year in coaching fees, costumes, skates and living expenses. The little prodigy who can already do a double flip rarely lives near one of the dozen or so shrines where the top coaches preside: either a family relocates to a place like Colorado Springs or Lakewood, Ohio, or the parents make boarding arrangements. Contrary to common perception, the sport is not patrician, at least not since World War II. Often...
...user enters a carnival big top to see and hear such freaks as Harry the Head, Herman the Human Mole, Wanda the Worm Woman, Jello Jack the Boneless Boy and Bouncing Benny the Bump. Later the user can wander backstage and sneak into the freaks' trailers, flip through their photo albums, read their love letters, watch music videos on their TV sets. Animated by Jim Ludtke, Freak Show has an artfully eerie feel. "We didn't want it to be a techie thing," says Homer Flynn, the band's manager. "But we do like being the only CD-ROM with...
There is a flip side to gift-giving, however. The worst presents show how little you know or care or bothered to think about the person the gift...
...fashion and trend-tapping beer commercials ("Drink Bud Dry if you're thirsty/Don't if you're not"), but also in the music of up-and-coming bands like Tripping Daisy. Bill, TD's debut album, is alternative not in the sense of being part of a groundbreaking flip side to pop culture, but as part of a new and newly exploited commercial version of this flip side. But hey, if it sounds good, who really cares; Tripping Daisy is sure to appeal to a number of listeners to whom it will sound pleasantly familiar, and is a competent exercise...
...Selick and composer Danny Elfman have produced a Christmas special gone terribly wrong. All the expected cliches are here: the despairing soul who doesn't understand the holidays, the possibility of a Christmas that almost isn't, a jolly but befuddled Santa Claus and...a mad scientist with a flip-top skull? "Nightmare" is a decidedly different celebration of the season...