Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wearing the colors of their country, or their company sponsor, the front runners do not acknowledge the cheering crowd. Conservative and calculating, they monitor their pace and fluid levels with the detachment of a boilerman checking fuel guages. Clumps of serious runners follow, dedicated amateurs clustered behind a pacer. Then the hump of the bell curve runs by, the anonymous pack one standard deviation from the mean. After that there are no more clumps but, rather, a constant stream, preventing you from crossing the street without careful timing and a quick dash...
...tumors in certain animals, including humans. The rare tumors associated with the virus usually appear before two years of age in humans, and doctors often have difficulty treating them because they lie deep within the brain, in an area known as the choriod plexus, which manufactures cerebro-spinal fluid...
...color the stage, despite its occasional dissonances. The caliber of vocal talent complements and even outshines the original score. Greg Schaffer as Joseph, Bonnie Graves as the narrator and Liz Cotter as Simeon/Potiphar's wife delivered noteworthy performances. They make their stage presences strongly felt, their voices are truly fluid and the they add greatly to the multi-talented cast...
...like so many of the greats, he could not get used to the relative obscurity that goes along with the title of "former" welterweight champion of the world. So he returned to the ring, each time losing respect as well as the fluid motion and lightning quickness that made him as sweet as sugar. Terry Norris, the man who brought about Leonard's last retirement, showed that the sugar sweet jabs of the former Olympic golden boy had slowed to the speed of molasses in December...
Levine's writing style is fluid and lucid. She fills the pages with witty and original analyses of interviews, overheard conversations, films, comic strips, songs, comedians, television programs, psychological/scientific studies, magazine articles and books. She covers a range of female personalities from Madonna to Mary Beth Whitehead to Ann Landers to strangers in the supermarket...