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There’s some unofficial advice that tends to float through Newell Boathouse prior to ergometer speed tests...
...topped off with touches of electronic bloops and bleeps, and washed over with waves of noise at appropriate times. This sounds like a promising formula, and for the most part, it is; “Bem-Vinda” is very effervescent, very fragile, constantly threatening to float off into the ether and not come back...
Edgar is no stranger to portentousness. Three years earlier he watched the German airship Hindenburg float overhead on its way to Lakehurst, N.J., where it exploded at its mooring. But such encounters with history are few and infrequent. Mostly he catalogs childhood sights and sounds: his dog Pinky, knickers and knee socks, a backyard igloo in winter, a beach in summer. Occasionally his mother Rose breaks into the narrative to complain about her respectable poverty, her husband's failure as a businessman, his card playing and carousing. Dave Altschuler is part owner of a music store located in Manhattan...
...like most volcanic events, is the result of continental wanderlust. According to the widely accepted theory of plate tectonics, the earth's crust forms the top layer of about a dozen major plates and several smaller ones, which range in thickness from 20 miles to 150 miles. These sections float on a gooey layer of partly molten rock known as the asthenosphere. As they move in different directions at an average speed of several inches a year, the plates collide, dive under and buckle against one another, crinkling up into a mountain range here, yanking apart to form a rift...
Kushner himself, however, is remarkably contained; he is thin and demure behind wiry, scholarly glasses. He keeps his hands clasped when not talking, though they float up in superfluous gestures when he is. His speaking does not erupt in the same way as his characters’ speech...