Word: glide
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...pose," he has said?and cuts loose to his own music or to the Isley Brothers' Showdown, practicing what Dancer Hinton Battle calls "moves that kill. It's the combinations that really distinguish him as an artist. Spin, stop, pull up leg, pull jacket open, turn, freeze. And the glide, where he steps forward while pushing back. Spinning three times and popping up on his toes. That's a trademark, and a move a lot of professionals wouldn't try. If you go up wrong, you can really hurt yourself...
Some of the film's 100 minutes glide by, thanks to Seymour. An actress of her caliber could probably wrap up even Lassiter-quality dialogue during lunch breaks...
...Reagan!" cried one exuberant islander. Local musicians sang the praises of America to a lilting calypso beat, while other townsfolk sold T shirts emblazoned with the slogan THANK YOU U.S.A. FOR LIBERATING GRENADA. When 653 Americans stepped ashore last week from the Cunard Countess, the first cruise ship to glide into St. George's since the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada last October, they received a rousing welcome. "This," said a smiling taxi driver, "is the invasion we've been waiting for." The island will greet an even more significant invader with open arms this week: U.S. Secretary...
Sumners' performances are sweet and sculptural. In her trademark maneuver, she follows a kind of swooping, swanlike glide with the difficult IVi airborne spins of a double axel. Some fellow Olympic team members are concerned, however, that the sheltered teenager has not mastered the inner game of figure skating. Says one: "I really wonder if she's got the emotional strength to be what she wants to be." The determinedly upbeat Hamilton points to the difficulty of withstanding the pressure at the top. "She has the physical capabilities," he says, "but emotionally it's very, very difficult...
...learn the manner to glide with the vowels, and to drag the voice gently from the high to the lower notes," advised Pier Francesco Tosi in his book Observations on the Florid Song. "Let him take care that the higher the notes, the more it is necessary to touch them with softness, to avoid screaming. Let him take care that the words are uttered in such a manner that they be distinctly understood...