Word: flips
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...twist on the government-targeted fugitive he played in 1975 in Three Days of the Condor. "Condor was a critical look at the CIA, and Spy Game is an inside look at it from a historical perspective," he says. "It's intriguing to play a character that's the flip side of one you played before...
With most biographies, it's only the specialist reader who bothers to flip back to the footnotes. Not so with Theodore Rex (Random House; 772 pages; $35). The second volume of Edmund Morris' projected three-volume set on the life of Teddy Roosevelt is likely to have just about everybody taking a peek back there once or twice. People are going to want to reassure themselves that the gifted but infamous Morris has not made up some of his nicely observed details, and not just because so much of this book has the hurtling pace and alert eye of good...
...flip side, students couldn’t understand Pusey’s position. And his characteristic strong will didn’t help things—“when he said no, he meant no. He was perhaps too inflexible,” Bethel says...
...what has started out as a boy-loves-girl-loves-girl love story winds up as nothing but a shaggy ghost tale. No explanation is given for Sumire's disappearance, unless the reader accepts musings such as "this side is actually the other side" and that "on the flip side of everything we think we absolutely have pegged lurks an equal amount of the unknown. Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstanding." Such pretentious meditations become even more irksome because of the cloying interspersions of Western allusions, from "snap, crackle, pop" to "The name is Bond. James Bond...
...flip side means that every user on campus is responsible for themselves,” he said...