Word: glide
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...better brace yourself, Jack Pickford or the late Douglas Fairbanks. The fact that I have to reach back four decades to describe his hairdo will only stress the curiously old-fashioned look of him. Some men dash into a room, some gallop, others float, burgeon, slide, pad, lope or glide. McNamara's entrance is something between a creep and a stroll...
...scene that is symbolic of new directions in modern dance, Astarte, the moon goddess, writhes in passionate triumph over the spent form of the mortal who seduced her. The action is bathed in lights and film images that glide, collide and dissolve in a psychedelic pattern to the crash of rock rhythms. This ascendant moment in Robert Joffrey's ballet Astarte appears on the cover of this issue almost exactly as it is seen by audiences. To capture the moment, Photographer Herbert Migdoll photographed the dancers, Trinette Singleton and Maximiliano Zo-mosa, during a performance. Then at another performance...
...contrast, the Negroes unconsciously adopted the role of the aggressor. "Whites aren't as good. The white people slide; we glide. We have natural born rhythm. They can't dance. Can't sing soul. We're naturally strong. And we got better girls...
They'd know that jaunty saunter 0anywhere. Bob Hope comes onstage with the cocky glide of a golfer who has just knocked off three birdies for a 68 and nailed Arnold Palmer to the clubhouse door. The crooked grin spreads wide, the clear brown eyes stay cool, and the audience roars its welcome; they can hardly wait for Hope to sock it to them. And so he does. Five, six gags a minute. Pertinent, impertinent, leering, perishing. And sometimes plopping, but only for an instant. When he misses, the famous scooped snoot shoots defiantly skyward, the prognathous jaw drops...
...gives no hint why the pilot, Captain Charles Cochran, 45, a veteran of 14,000 flying hours who died in the cockpit, was flying too low. Despite the snow, weather conditions did not rule out a visual landing; moreover, all pilots were warned that Cincinnati's electronic glide slope indicator had been out of action since Sept. 5 while the runway is being lengthened. Airport officials hastened to give their facilities a clean bill. Nonetheless, twice before in the past six years the hills of Hebron have been a November graveyard for aircraft approaching Runway 18. A Boeing...