Word: float
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nets players as well as opponents shower him with superlatives. Erving, who will be 24 this month, discusses himself with neither modesty nor bravado: "I feel that I can drive, float, and change direction easily in the air better than most of the other players. It's that freedom of motion that separates me." Another Erving trick: in mid-dribble he palms the ball with his right hand, leaving his left free to fend off opponents, and soars into shooting or passing position without losing a step. The ploy, Erving says, "is quicker and more deceptive. You eliminate...
...what else to do with his singers. The stairs (38 in all) rise gradually from the apron to stage rear and, depending on the scene, rearrange themselves in varying zigzag patterns as a good unit set should. Meanwhile, barricade walls slide in and out from the wings, prison bars float gracefully down from the flies. All this has its effective moments, although it seldom looks like medieval Sicily. What Dexter and Set Designer Josef Svoboda have really done is to build a stairway to a bella voce evening - and that is something Caballe and her swains provide...
...nations. Witteveen proposed that the Arabs invest in the IMF itself. The IMF could then lend the money to Western nations or to poorer countries, helping to set their payments balances in order. These complex issues will take months to work out. In the meantime, it appears that the float will become a semipermanent fixture in the international monetary system...
...longer seems able to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," and Frazier has passed that point in his career when he reigned as the most intimidating boxer to step into the ring since Liston...
Time passes slowly up here in the mountains, We sit beside bridges and walk beside fountains, Catch the wild fishes that float through the stream, Time passes slowly when you 're lost in a dream...