Word: flips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...More ? So the party runs a risk. When Jiang climbed the rostrum over Tiananmen Square for his maestro performance, he forever linked his party with the Olympics. The flip side of that joyous celebration in the capital last week is that Chinese could blame their leaders if they blow the Games. That has raised expectations that the government may modify its behavior to ensure success?and its own survival...
...dream of using the technology to sell new shows like The Sopranos; tomorrow they could use it to make every TV into an a la carte TV museum. (If they don't, someone else might: already hackers are swapping digitized video files, raising the prospect of Napsterized TV.) The flip side is that we may lose the common experience of having watched a few agreed-on classics: as TV becomes more like books, we may find that access to the complete Keats or the complete Alex P. Keaton doesn't mean everyone will check it out. In the days...
...cleverer than he appeared, Clark was the Ike of teens - a canny conduit to spread the social and sonic threat of rock 'n roll from kids' bedrooms into the nation's living rooms. Jerry Lee Lewis might come on, pound away at "Great Balls of Fire" and flip his head forward, letting his hair spill over his face like a thick blond veil. (I can still recall a delicious roiling in my stomach when I saw this.) But because Clark was running things, Jerry Lee's performance seemed less like outrage than an extension of entertainment...
...Approximately 24 hours after surgery, I noticed that something was hanging down my throat, and that if I made an exaggerated hacking sound, it would flip into my mouth onto the back of my tongue, in clear view of whoever I could get to look in my mouth. I left the unidentified hanging object alone for another day, occasionally choking. But my drugged self began to worry that I would aspirate...
...Wearing flip-flops on the boardwalk We?ve seen it happen a million times. (And about half of those times it happened to us.) You?re walking down an old-fashioned wooden boardwalk, the kind with slats between the boards. Maybe you?re eating an ice-cream cone. You?re feeling happy, carefree. You?re enjoying the slap-slap sound your flip-flops are making against the wood. Suddenly, one foot catches in a slat, and you?re falling, falling, and landing on roughly hewn wood. You?ve lost your composure and your ice-cream cone. You have, however, gained...