Word: erraticism
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When Baryshnikov, 33, was named to the post, he spent the year before his appointment took effect studying the troupe he would inherit from Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, who had guided it for nearly four decades. Misha had danced with the company and knew its strengths-a rich, eclectic...
When one embarks on elaborate multiple fantasies of ifs, he enters abstract forests of luck and chance, of contingency and probability, where each speculative path opens onto a thousand new possibilities. Usually the mind penetrates only a few steps, looks nervously over its shoulder, then bolts back to the hard...
Erratic shooting by Warren Grossman, number-five player, resulted in a 6-2 loss of the opening set. But it was only a matter of time until Grossman found his rhythm and began forcing the net--a strategy which paid off for the Crimson netman.
UNFORTUNATELY, AFTER THE FIRST SEQUENCE--the tale of Uther's winning Excalibur and the conception of Arthur--the film slows down and Boorman's pacing remains erratic for the next two hours. Boorman gives us almost the entire legend: young Arthur's gaining Excalibur: Merlin's education of the young...
At least one good girl was not ruined by these books, although she must have read a lot of them to mock so well. Before her 15th birthday in 1790, Jane Austen had written Love and Freindship, erratic spellings and all, into a notebook. There it remained until after her...