Word: glide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rigid as any set by Louis Quatorze. Along with genuinely useful "urban survival" features, it gives the insecure a superior feeling of being inside, offering them a blend of fact and fantasy. It portrays an unreal stream-of-consumption world whose Gucci'd, Pucci'd denizens glide between Parke-Bernet (the t is not silent) and La Grenouille (the maitre d's name is Jean), send their children to the Dalton School, winter in St. Maarten or Gstaad, summer in the Hamptons, patronize the priciest boutiques but also thriftshop, and know exactly where to find the best...
After choosing a width for your skis, the second and a more difficult decision lies in choosing between three alternative ski bottoms. The first option is a pair of inlaid Mohair strips which allow you to glide forwards but provide traction when you push off on one ski to slide forward on the other. This is the first commercial waxless ski and is America's improvement on tying seal skins to the bottom of each...
Fish scales are at their best in loose snow and slush but are slightly less effective in their glide. Also, in hard-frozen crusty snow a slight--and extremely obnoxious--buzzing sound is created. If, however, you are one of those who have avoided central heating all these years as "unnatural," then you will also reject these recent attempts to make life easier and insist on waxing your skis...
Some of the Square's problems may prove to be self-correcting. The neighborhood's downhill glide in recent years has resulted the lowering of property values and some rental rates. "They're really coming in here--students, faculty members, and just people who want to live in Cambridge but can't afford more expensive homes elsewhere," says Smith, who claims his own home might have cost him three times as much in another section of Cambridge...
...husband, jealous, even desists from his own love affairs to bring her to heel. Although Director Jean-Charles Tacchella manages some telling glimpses of family life, Cousin, Cousine becomes a sort of bourgeois anti-bourgeois parody. At its worst moments the movie looks like a musical without songs. Characters glide about, acting as if they are about to burst into song...