Word: flyaway
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dignified amazement. However, this is a muted Mostel, and somehow he is not enough. Whether the problem lies in trying to capture Joyce onstage or in Burgess Meredith's direction, there are long moments of curious lifelessness, a kind of listless anarchy, the stage business often as flyaway as the Joycean allusions...
...begun to sound like a Japanese Humbert Humbert in his pursuit of his Thai princess-now a student in Japan-secretly watches her in a lesbian embrace. Then Honda's mansion at the foot of Mount Fuji burns to the ground like a pyre at Benares, the flyaway ashes sporadically sizzling into his new swimming pool. The combination of filigreed Oriental pornography and slightly cheap Götterdämmerung has sometimes been a contaminating tendency in Mishima's work. But the rest of the book plausibly suggests a writer whose gifts amount at least to minor genius...
...Flyaway. Seagren, 25, must be conceded the edge in Munich on the strength of his 1968 Olympic victory and his amazing comeback after tearing a knee cartilage while horseback riding last summer. Running eight miles a day, including wind sprints up and down the steps of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Seagren was back in competition by March 4, vaulting a respectable 16 ft. 6 in. at the Meet of Champions in Los Angeles...
...times this year with springy vaults that give him the appearance of coming off a trampoline instead of a pole. Says Seagren's former track coach, Donald Ruh: "Bob is a classic vaulter. Isaksson is more gymnastic. He makes it look almost effortless because he gets so much flyaway on top." Adds Jenks: "Bob overcomes that by being stronger, faster and taller...
Despite spreading public impatience and anger with flyaway food costs, the Administration has done next to nothing to hold them in check for fear of losing the farm vote. Indeed Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz regularly travels through the farm belt holding out promises of even higher prices to come. Most economists are wary about controlling farm prices because it could lead to shortages and rationing. Yet there are alternatives to price controls. The Administration could increase supplies by 1) loosening meat import quotas, 2) reducing some price supports and 3) releasing Government feed surpluses on the market. A start...