Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toward Dole stems from the senior senator's tendency to "flip-flop" on issues and on Dole's recent tiff with the national Log Cabin's Club, a group of gay Republicans in which Spampinato claims membership...
CALL IT THE FLIPPER FLIP-FLOP. A squabble over attempts to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act is forging some strange alliances even as it opens up a bitter rift in the environmental movement. In the end, it may be business interests--once the villains in the piece but now terrified of a boycott by dolphin-loving consumers--that decide the matter...
...while most kids his age had diving repertoires consisting of the cannonball and the belly flop, Murray was training three times a week with a coach at his local swim club in Washington...
...CATCH, FOR WINFREY OR any other movie woman, is that those films had better enhance studios' purses. Male Hollywood may congratulate itself on allowing these women's films, then blame a whole genre--indeed, a whole gender--if a few flop. "Women don't get the second chances men get," says Pfeiffer, who next year will produce and star in the romantic comedy One Fine Day. "We know we'll pay more dearly for our failures. So we try to be a lot more sure about our choices...
...more interesting cultural developments of the '90s is America's fascination with drag queens. Stemming from the blond wig and impossibly long legs of ubiquitous model-cum-disco diva, Rupaul, and the popularity of last year's fantastic, flip-flop-dress-filled Australian import, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," the popularity of drag now includes huge numbers of non-traditional (i.e. straight) fans...