Word: float
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Travolta plays Tony Manero, king of the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn disco scene. From the opening shot, a sweeping glance of Bay Ridge streets complete with pizzerias, neighborhood stores and the F train rumbling overhead, we know Tony is in control of his environment. In the background float the strains of "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees, who wrote and performed the movie's score. Tony works in a paint store, a job that proves singularly unpromising. But he really lives for Saturday night, when he and his friends hit the 2001: Odyssey discotheque...
...being bound together with reeds by explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who plans to float them down the Charles River to corroborate the theory that ancient Law School graduates migrated by sea to populate Wall...
Like Pinga, Loughlin and Shapiro, entrepreneurs, executives and local officials throughout the land are bewildered and outraged by the growing number of federal rules and regulations. They seem to float out from Washington as casually as children blow soap bubbles, and all too often contain about as much substance. No one can possibly keep up with all the pronouncements affecting him and his business or profession, and many people have given up trying. Each national Administration has promised to cut the paper burden, only to end up adding to it. The Commission on Federal Paperwork, created in 1974 to figure...
...grandee and his wife, known as the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro, initially appear two dimensional but that's because they float across stage on a gondola bearing a resemblance of sorts to Washington Crossing the Delaware. But nothing is flat about David S. Brown's and Diane Nabatoff's performances. Nabatoff manages to look both pinched and bombastic simultaneously. Uppercrustedly on the bourgeois make, Brown has the perfect Hogarthian face for the role: his oblivious facial reactions to his own spectacular antics make him all the funnier. With Brown as the Duke of Plaza-Toro...
...letters. In her opinion, behaviorists are on the wrong track when they train agoraphobics to avoid panic. Says she: "Recovery lies in the attack itself and learning to cope with it. If you teach people to avoid panic, when it comes, they fall apart and relapse." Her advice: "float" with the anxiety attack, don't fight...