Word: lofting
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...with Gippy, escapes with her husband whenever they can to a tree farm they bought not long ago in Dutchess County, and when she is in Manhattan tries to stay out of midtown, where every tourist comes equipped with a celebrity detector. She and Gummer are moving from his loft in Tribeca, an area in downtown Manhattan favored by artists, to a larger but equally unpretentious place just to the north, in Little Italy. Streep is now and forever a New Yorker, without a trace of a tan or of West Coast show-biz gloss. She bounces into a magazine...
...hydrangeas at the entrance, saunters beamishly past scores of food outlets, surveys Remembering You, a handsomely stocked gift shop, and peeks in on a shop crammed with antique postcards. He exchanges a few joky words with Anthony Hawkins, the 36-year-old black manager of Harborplace. At the Kite Loft, Rouse pays $1.95 for a "puddle jumper," a wooden propeller on a stick that whirls aloft and settles gently into the harbor. Rouse is pleased to note that on a busy weekday, the pavilion is spotless...
...smog thing was just an exaggeration, like when your uncle Mort tells you about this great fishing spot where the fish jump into the boat, or when some guy from Bangor tells you that it rained so hard the other day that three farmers drowned in a hay loft. I couldn't believe that they would have smog that you could actually...
...miles above the equator, in what is called geosynchronous orbit. At that distance, satellites remain fixed over one spot on the ground, permanently in line of sight of antennas. The U.S. shuttle can reach a maximum altitude of only 690 miles, and additional boosters will be needed to loft payloads higher. Europeans were quick to make much of la différence. NASA, en garde...
Center Steve Johnson, 6 ft. 10 1/2 in., 235 lbs., is a giant dervish, spinning loose for layups or whirling to loft a hook shot. The Beavers' offense is geared to pry him free within 6 ft. of the basket. Johnson completed 71% of his field goals last year, the highest single-season average in college history. He is shooting 76% this year, pushing his career average up to 67.5%. If Johnson can maintain the pace for the rest of the season, he will pass Bill Walton (who shot 65.1 % in his three years at U.C.L.A.) as the most...