Word: glided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cleaning the car used to be simple, just a glide through the local car wash for $5 or so. Now, thanks to upscale urges, the latest rage is a serious auto grooming from gas cap to hood ornament, which can cost as much as $160 and take half a day. The process, called detailing, has long been employed by used-car dealers to prepare old models for their lots, and is now offered by more than 4,000 shops across the nation, according to the California Carwash Association...
Short of a bomb, indeed, experts were hard put to explain the disaster. Even if the pilot had lost all four engines simultaneously, aviation sources pointed out, he could have sent a distress signal and possibly continued to glide for 30 minutes. And even if his power source had been cut, he could have used a backup system. In addition, officials observed, sudden disappearances from radar and crashes at sea are very rare. Never before has a commercial jet crossing the Atlantic plunged into the ocean...
...mistake there. Sellars has let his theatrical imagination run wild. The stage of the Eisenhower Theater, stripped to the pipes and rafters, is a cavernous expanse of catwalks, stairways, trapdoors and art deco modules that glide across the stage unloading and gobbling up performers. A string quartet provides onstage musical accompaniment, while the actors (their faces often decorated with red or green war paint) are showered with a hodgepodge of spotlight effects meant to simulate movie close-ups. Most of the 3 1/2 hours is played at fever-pitch intensity; yet the climactic dueling scene is performed in virtual darkness...
...Part Time Lover. And something blue: Marilyn McCoo's rendition of Am I Blue? as a tribute to Ethel Waters. When the show didn't sing, it danced: Gregory Hines tapped in tribute to Teddy Hale, then Sammy Davis Jr. introduced seven old masters who demonstrated they could still glide and stomp. And it chuckled: M.C. Bill Cosby quipped and jived and, when Singer Jennifer Holliday was delayed, improvised his own burlesqued version of Gimme a Pigfoot. It also cried a river. The emotional climax came when Patti LaBelle sang You'll Never Walk Alone to Martin Luther King...
...piece of human luggage, shuttled from country places to castles, possessed by magical thoughts: "If I stayed still enough, the motor would start. If I held my breath, the front door would not open . . . I made a bargain with myself not to cry, and then the coach would glide away, away from the grey house where nobody lived, away away away...