Word: lapse
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That night the Hutton style burst upon a relatively powerless world. Between choruses of Dipsy Doodle, she began to throw her body around as if she had no further use for it. She mugged, turned somersaults, hopped on musicians' laps and pulled their hair, fought off imaginary adversaries, tore...
At the starter's gun, Don Gehrmann had grabbed the lead, set the pace for a slow 64-second quarter. Villanova's John Joe Barry had taken over the pace-setter's role for the next five laps; then it was FBI Man Wilt's turn...
But Levinson is a mere cipher to the main characters of the story-a silver liquid that laps around everything, distributes a subtle irony of understatement to the doings of the group, without doing much itself.
As the gun popped at the start of the mile's eleven laps, the crowd expected
Then Gehrmann slowly began to fade. "I felt kind of sick," he said the next day. "In the third quarter the other runners started going by ... I kept telling myself to stick with them and they kept passing me . . ." As the crowd roared at the action on the steep turns...