Word: float
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...twice threatened to close, surviving only on donations which came after those dire announcements. Since the spring, it has been under new ownership—the proprietor is a Wellesley philosophy professor who promises more poetry readings featuring a wider variety of international poets. To make it float, the 79-year-old shop is being reorganized as a non-profit entity...
...HAVE GUESSED from the title, Modest Mouse is fueled by pessimism, so losing in the Best Alternative Album category probably didn't come as a surprise. The key to the band's appeal, though, is an unexpected lack of bitterness. Bad things happen--oh, well, the band says on Float On, its first radio hit in a decade-long career. Isaac Brock's squawked-out vocals and an appearance by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band turn the downward spiral into something arch, melodic and ever...
...Plays Pleasant,” a series of light, satiri-cal comedies that Shaw penned in the early stages of his career. There’s not much of a plot. Instead, a custody battle, a romance, and turn after turn of sparkling conversation float easily along in the play’s seaside setting...
...opening and the noir-ish palette contrast is cleverly manipulated by rapid switches between black and white backgrounds in the dance scenes. Yet it becomes a little trippy—and borderline tacky—when objects drawn from the lyrics start to appear and subsequently float around in slow motion: string instruments when Timberlake says “symphony” or notepads when he says “love note.” Featuring a perfect blend of solo and group dancing, the video is full of undeniably captivating liquid movements, although the all-too-familiar interspersions...
...Ironically, the plane's unique emergency equipment was useless in this case. Each Cirrus plane has a large parachute that can be deployed to allow a plane in trouble to float safely to the ground. Several Cirrus planes and their pilots have been saved by their parachutes, and the chute apparently gave Lidle an impressive amount of confidence in his $187,000 plane. "The whole plane has a parachute on it," Lidle told the New York Times last month. "Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land...