Word: buoying
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...unrivaled command of tone and phrasing, his Louis Armstrong-like ability to set up a sustained note so that it hits a dramatic sweet spot, Marsalis' trumpet is particularly voicelike in its expressiveness--for him, a "with strings" outing is almost a natural. At times Robert Freedman's arrangements buoy him tastefully; at others they egg the normally cerebral player on to romantic abandon. It's the best sort of marriage between pop warmth and jazz brains...
...steps down as Budget Director and returns to the private sector, he leaves behind him a fiscal foundation that is sure to buoy the nation for quite some time. Raines has clearly taken to heart the College's advice to go forth to better serve thy country and thy kind. As he, at least for the time being, departs the public sector, he leaves behind an example of dedication to a mission and to public interest that undergraduates today would do well to heed...
Radcliffe would have finished even higher had it not been for an unfortunate disqualification during the final A division race. Senior captain Laura Sterns was deemed by the race judge to have hit another boat at the jibe mark--the second buoy of the triangle-shaped course--even though the team felt that the judge had caught the wrong boat...
...were in the Central Park audience on opening night, know that On the Town is no museum piece. For the 1949 film version, they replaced most of Bernstein's brassy score with more razzmatazzy tunes. But Wolfe has jettisoned Robbins' choreography for dances by Eliot Feld that don't buoy the production; they give it stretch marks. Better to cut these and let the show soar as an all-out musical comedy...
...marvel the weight of trouble a family can buoy you through. I like her best when she admits, "I would come home from the office some days and want to smash the laptop over his head," rather than read his manuscript over Indian food, as she often did, carefully excising references to herself. But I admire that she honored the "for worse" part of her vows instead of running to Oprah when the world came crashing down around her. She turned down all television offers. "I didn't owe anyone an explanation of who I am." She's barreled through...