Word: flopped
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...descent is much harder than the ascent, but you don't know that yet. The novice hiker is leg weary as you near the cottonwood trees of the first oasis, 3,000 ft. below the rim. It's much hotter here than at the trailhead, and you flop down in the shade and briefly commune with Kit Carson and Charles Lindbergh and Sir Edmund Hillary and wonder, "Can I make it back up?" The answer is yes. Absolutely...
...single example of that oxymoron "reality TV" on the air. Nothing to try out this summer. Nothing for the fall, either. The peacock network is momentarily without feathers--and so desperate that it seems ready to import Chains of Love, a "funny" bondage-and-dating show that was a flop when it was shown this spring on Dutch...
...film's prime mover is Buck, played by its writer, Mike White, who was also a producer on the flop-d'estime TV show Freaks and Geeks. Buck is in his late 20s, but his development was arrested in preadolescence. Jobless, he lives with his mother, who dies in the opening sequence. He invites his old pal Chuck (Chris Weitz) to the funeral...
...reasonable, moral and intelligent people have valid arguments for or against the death penalty, one thing rings true: the decision is too important and too serious to be dictated by the whims of politics. While I am glad to see a life spared, at least temporarily, Bush's flip-flop from his apathetic stance on previous cases is a real disgrace to both our justice system and our choice in political candidates. ROBERT M. RADESKI Lake Gregory, Calif...
...around the Internet. Radical gays should not be allowed to spread their malicious, hate-based lies about Dr. Laura, unquestioned by the liberal media. In the name of tolerance, radical gays have turned out to be the most hateful, intolerant group of all. The problem with the liberal flip-flop that's going on here is that it will bite who it's intended for first (conservatives and religious), then it will turn and bite the liberal and his Hollywood counterpart next...