Word: floaters
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...Rojack (like Mailer?) knows so many worlds that he is never an insider. Rojack is in limbo, always a familiar face, always tuned in on the less guarded secrets, but always a floater on the periphery, always a nose pressed against the glass. This is Rojack (and Mailer his shadow), much too hip to swing with the squares, but too close to power to call himself an outcast; doomed to a netherworld of liberal intellectuals, never in the back rooms with Mr. Big nor safe on a midnight street in Harlem...
Tufts, on the other hand, forechecked continually, and gave the varsity a good deal of trouble in clearing the puck, especially in the first two periods. The Jumbo offense was limited primarily to a floater and to a few disorganized dashes...
...Seesaw (by William Gibson) needs only two for the cast. Henry Fonda is an Omaha lawyer, downhearted and adrift in New York while being divorced. Anne Bancroft is a warmhearted, racy-tongued, Bronx-to-Bohemia floater whom he meets at a party. All her life she has given too freely; he all his life has taken. Shuttling between their shabby little flats, they carry on a love affair in sickness and in health, in banter and in woe, bridging a cultural and temperamental divide better than they can blot out a memory of marriage...
...outcome of the game was really never in doubt, for Dartmouth's offensive attack was practically negligible. It consisted of defenseman Dan Goggin (who scored three points with one goal and two assists) and an occasional floater who stayed up by the visitors' blue line. This strategy never worked, as the varsity had no trouble in holding the slow, inexperienced Green linemen...
...hours and 18 minutes later she popped to the surface, cheerful as a bubble. After the water had been forced from the access tube, Professor Piccard and Jacques came to the deck of the floater and were rowed to the corvette. Leaning on his son, the professor whispered in French: "You speak, Jacques. The credit is all yours...