I count myself a Democrat and am embarrassed by flip comments like this.

Automatically Paris formed a flip comment, but the words died in his throat.

This is a bit of a flip comment.

Eisenhower responded with the flip comment, "If you give me a week, I might think of one."

Please don't get me wrong: I don't hate soccer, flip comments notwithstanding.

Are these flip comments from a vigorous advocate or obnoxious bigotry - and a serious problem for the Michigan Democrats?

What bothered me most about Bostric's flip comment was that he and Destrin both looked at each other, nodded, and didn't say anything more.

Outside the courtroom, the Mayor described the judge's remark about releasing him from custody as "a cheap shot," "a flip comment" and "an affront to the judiciary."

Let's hope readers don't take too much to heart David Bouchier's flip comments about boarding cats while their owners are away ["Out of Order," May 2].

Ypsir fought his war with grand and ugly gestures; he fought back with sarcasm and flip comments, and totally frustrated the great Lord of Medusa.

Still, he was undone by a chain of events that began with what he considered a flip comment - he later said, "I was winging it" - at a birthday party.

Freud's flip comments about changing a patient's unrecognized fantasy of giving Freud a gift into a future possible donation to the Psychoanalytic Fund hardly imply he was "manipulative and not always truthful."

Mr. Rubin clearly does not want to overreach and send the dollar into a tailspin as his predecessor, Lloyd Bentsen, did in early 1993 with the flip comment: "I'd like to see a stronger yen."

Although she often seemed overshadowed when Democrats dominated the House and her independent streak and flip comments seeming to diminish her authority, Mrs. Schroeder had rebounded as a member of the House's new Democratic minority.

A plain-spoken man who had been chief executive of Alcoa, Mr. O'Neill periodically created stirs with seemingly flip comments about policy toward the dollar, the intelligence of Wall Street traders and the wisdom of lending money to Brazil.

But these flip comments were followed by a heartfelt duet, in which Mr. Aiken and Ted Pollen 3d provided each other with solace in moments of weakness and a solo for Tina Bush that expressed sorrow, compassion and determination.

True, Hoa had replaced his flip comment about the butterfly with weather predictions graded by reliability, but it was still true that until you got into the infinite loop of adding variables and revising the nonlinear-equations system, there were no predictions Hoa graded as reliable enough by his standards.

Always ready with a wisecrack or a flip comment, Anthony is the energy force of the house, out most nights until around 6 a.m., sleeping until 2 p.m. and then taking a dip in the ocean before heading off at 4 to his job as a waiter at one of the Hot Spot restaurants in town.