Word: luff
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...French Lieutenant's Woman, a film in which the sanity of her 19th century character is in grave doubt, what Streep manages to convey when she is not speaking is extraordinary. She is pleased with the performance. "I luff effrythink I do, darlink," she says, giving a brief Zsa Zsa Gabor imitation. Then she lapses into the somewhat prosy shoptalk of a college-educated actress: "When I read the book, it elicited an emotional reaction in me and I determined to re-create it for someone else through thinking and design, thought and craft. The arc I designed...
...Radcliffe sailors anything to luff at. The women are the only team in the country that has made it to the championship regatta for the last nine years running, and they don't intend to let that record sink this year...
...foot too long." A short man with an advancing paunch, soft, silver-gray hair over the collar, and kind, blue, bespectacled eyes, Adler can be ultra-suave when kissing a board member's wife, making a courtly progress through a drawing room, or wooing a soprano. "You will luff the tenarr I have for you," he coos into the phone. "He is so-o-o hawn-zum." But he is unmovable on the subject of contracts and rehearsals...
...Luff, the forward edge of the sail...
...luff is to head the boat directly into the wind, which sets the sails flapping...