Word: feathering
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...there's little time for serenity while you're actually rowing. Each individual must have the technique down: drop the oar quick, slide, release, feather, square up the oar and do it again. And again. And again. The rest of the team can't cover up for any one rower...
...return to the asylum at the end; the students and shag-hairdoed hippies go from the bars and cafes home to their nice, warm, high-rent beds. Alan Bates has lots of mischevious fun as the soldier, and deBroca's direction is free-wheeling; the film tickles, like a feather. And just think; by concentrating hard enough on the delight of going to a unconventional film like this, you can convince yourself that you're just as filled with bottled-up inspiration and love of life as the charming lunatics in deBroca's fantasy...
...enchanted grove. She is caught in the act of munching one (Makarova actually does a few steps with a gilded ball in her teeth) by the prince, who, like any right-minded nobleman in Russian ballet, is out hunting. In exchange for her freedom, she gives him a feather that will bring her and her supernatural powers to his side in time of trouble. She knows there will be an emergency soon because the forest is controlled by a demon who imprisons young girls and can turn a man to stone. After a suitable confrontation with evil, the firebird triumphs...
...feather: the pre-requisite for recovery. Feathering is the wrist action that turns the blade parallel to the water so it can be moved in the recovery without touching any water. A recovery without a feather is like Chem 20 without pre-meds--impossible...
...house some 30 feet away. After dinner, we talked for several hours, attempting to sort out the four jumbled years since we had last met. Then I went down to the children's house, undressed in the chilly darkness and sank beneath a dozen blankets on a homemade goose feather mattress...