This year I flipped for a Degas ballerina ($39), a glass figurine that seems to capture the essence of Impressionism without being kitsch.
But one reason I flipped for "August" was its superabundance of characters, of conflicts, of surprising revelations and savage jokes, of no-she-didn't thrusts from its combative central character, the domineering mother played so unforgettably by Deanna Dunagan.
Most Scandalous Line: A hoe? No, that don't make me / See what I want and slip slide to it swiftly / Felt it in my hips, so I dipped back to my bag of tricks / then I flipped for a tip, make me wanna do tricks on him / Lick him like a lollipop should be licked / Came to my senses and I chilled for a bit.
Asked why he had not been more forthcoming, Mr. Bradley said, "You don't want me to go around disclosing every time I flip out for an hour or two".
Sometimes I flip through, looking for something that will soothe me or something that will amuse me or something that will make me think.
As I get ready for work, I flip through the morning news shows hoping for a juicy story on Trump's declining poll numbers.
I've played all kinds of music, but when I sit down and play for myself, I flip over all that time and jump back into the Fifties and Sixties.
While the health officer checks my daughter's head for lice, I flip it open.
I flip through Spin and wait for the proper moment to make the deft transfer, sticking the Penthouse inside the larger music magazine to conceal it.
But just as I was thinking about how to sustain such an argument, I flipped on CNN for a bit of post-debate commentary, and saw James Carville looking as if somebody had forced him to eat his tie.
