Word: flips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Flip the dial to Harvard Radio WHRB 95.3 FM in Eliot, Winthrop or any other brick House on the river and it will most likely just come up static...
Genius, so much fiction tells us, is the flip side of madness. In this busy, woozy thriller, a psychotic park dweller known as the Caveman (Samuel L. Jackson) is afflicted with "brain typhoons" and visions of "moth-seraphs." That gives him just the intuition needed to sleuth out a murder case involving a chic photographer (Colm Feore) of the Mapplethorpe stripe. The Caveman has lapses of logic, but fewer than you will find in George Dawes Green's improbable script. Despite Jackson's typically bravura turn, this Valentine massacre marks a step backward for the gifted director...
Brokaw said that, on the flip side, more isn't necessarily better. He is concerned that the quality of journalism may be sacrificed to the constant need for news...
...take from the latest flip-kick flick? No, what's truly bizarre about this scene is that it was staged for foreign guests as part of a campaign to buttress Beijing's bid to host the summer Olympic Games in 2008. The effort reaches a crucial point this week when delegates from the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) visit the capital for four days to compare it against rival cities Paris, Toronto, Istanbul and Osaka. The violence and pyrotechnics might have sent a mixed message, but Beijing has clearly learned a lesson from a failed Olympic-hosting bid in 1993, when...
...comedy routine in 1972, he has projected this almost split personality. He has been both the archetypal Japanese macho man?the rebel, the outlaw, the yakuza?while also playing the subversive clown prince version of all those cherished tough guys. Those phoned-in TV appearances are just the flip side of the stylized cinematic tough guy. Beat plays off the public's awareness of who he is. That farcical gangster on the set of low-budget TV shows is all the more lovable because he's the deadly gangster of big budget glossy feature films. In Japan, where...