Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Bush I doubt it. Throughout his public life expediency has colored Bush's every action. His 1980 abortion flip-flop is well-documented, but other signs of cynicism date back as much as a quarter century. Allegedly a moderate at heart, Bush opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1965 to curry favor with conservative Texas voters. He further betrayed his own moderation by allowing the religious right to dominate his 1992 convention...
...tacky. The Stahlbaum children get a giant Barbie doll and a spaceman at their family Christmas Eve party. The guests are dressed in the worst excesses of a quarter-century ago, and before long they are drunk and lubricious. Postmodern choreographer Mark Morris, never at a loss for a flip word or gesture, insists that his take on the Tchaikovsky classic is not a send-up, but that is exactly what it is -- rude, boisterous and more than a little, well, nutty...
...Palestinian-American, I was offended and saddened by Markel's flip suggestions that Harvard model its behavior on that of the Israeli defense Forces...
...hear some of the hard truths that inform a yearning for change. It was a year, to borrow a phrase E.B. White used to describe a contentious New England town meeting, "when democracy sat up and looked around." Part of Ross Perot's appeal was his rapid-fire, flip-chart manner of laying out the bad news that Bush and Clinton did not want to discuss...
...order to study the back of the body, students have to pick up the body and "flip it," says Sherleen Huang. The contact made her uncomfortable, she says: "it was like you're hugging the body...