Word: flips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...complicated questions blur into "blah blah blah" as the boy loses focus; then he daydreams that it reads, "All drivers to your places, please" - and we see a Formula One-type race as it might be animated by an eight-year-old in the corner pages of a flip book. Later, as Speed reaches manhood and drives in "real" races, the visuals get wildly sophisticated, but not one smidge more realistic. If you want documentary realism, the Wachowskis figuratively say, go rent a Ken Burns movie...
...only fair to point out that breeders aren't a solitary priesthood. They flip horses the way real estate speculators once flipped condos. With dollar signs in their eyes, they savor 2- and 3-year-old horses, exactly the way the fashion industry looks at long-stemmed 14-year-old girls, exactly the way the celebrity culture gazes on Britney and Lindsay and Miley, exactly the way shoe-company reps scrutinize boys on basketball courts. Horses, fashion models, teen stars--they're all produced for maximum profit...
...coin flip that decided whose name would come first when brothers-in-law Irvine Robbins and Burton Baskin combined their ice cream shops to found Baskin-Robbins, now a global chain with more than 5,800 franchises. Newly out of the military, Robbins opened his first store in Glendale, Calif., in 1945 with money that he'd saved from his Bar Mitzvah. Throughout his career, he was an adept salesman, never missing an opportunity; for the Beatles' 1964 arrival in the U.S., Robbins created the flavor Beatle Nut in just five days...
...have the full story. Perhaps more happened in that classroom than the news stories report; the whole affair is clouded by confusion and eccentricity. But as things stand now, it’s no surprise that Venkatesan has had trouble finding a lawyer: Her arguments seem groundless. Venkatesan has flip-flopped a number of times about whether or not she will drop the case, but as this issue goes to press, she still plans to sue and to write her autobiography. To do so would be unfair to students, and would only turn any of her potentially legitimate concerns into...
...first page of Lisa Randall’s “Warped Passages,” there is a cartoon of two babies in a crib. A casual flip through the book shows a rabbit dancing in front of a projector, several spinning spheres, and man in a falling elevator...