Word: footwork
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...Ghana to Tahiti's black sand beaches to Hawaii's perilous "Pipeline"-the Mount Everest of surf-dom-chills and spills crowd onto the screen. Some are caught by a waterproofed camera that behaves like a frolicsome seal, nuzzling close enough to eye a surfer's footwork, or leaving the viewer breathless and upended under a cascade of angry white water...
Pardee turned the ankle half an hour before the start of Sunday's meet and didn't even warm up to make sure of his footwork before the broad jump...
...meant, of course, chiefly the Americans, whose 26,000 troops dwarf other national contingents, but he also intended to evict the NATO military headquarters in Rocquencourt, near Paris. Last week began the inevitable fencing aimed at delaying or modifying the departures. It was led off by some fancy footwork...
...parliamentary wives, former Tory Defense Minister Douglas Harkness stormed into the House to demand that Cardin prove his "statements, insinuations and allegations" or resign. "Let him go home to his wife and family and endure what we have to endure," chimed in another Tory, and only some fast political footwork headed off a no-confidence motion that might well have brought down Pearson's minority government on the spot...
...Updike's performance has been mostly footwork displaying the virtuosity of a writer who can say very little extremely well. It may be that fancy footwork is all that Updike needs now to draw a crowd. But unless the performer tries for a little more, it may always be the same crowd...