Word: scatteringly
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...Blake, who has had just about all of the Pudding's hospitality he can hold, leaves, with a few companions. The kids are still waiting on the sidewalk across from the Pudding. It's 1 a.m. and a policeman is telling them to move on, go home, but they scatter, regroup and wait huddled in the circle of the streetlight. When Blake appears they cheer and crowd around him. "I touched him! Sign mine too!" They drift off chattering excitedly down the street, elated by having stuck it out, having...
Taking off from tunes by Jelly Roll Morton, "Eight Jelly Rolls" (1971) buries its structure and, true to Tharp's dictum, unearths random scatter. Six female dancers tease the music's rhythm, gliding over and diving under the beat, tearing through its even sounding. At first lost in inward spirals of movement, the six cohere as a group, parody a nightclub act and, later, back Tharp's solo disheveling. Shivers running down their spines, the dancers seem to shed a second skin, as if leaving shreds of themselves behind...
...Scattered Ashes. In an extraordinary spontaneous expression of grief, nearly two million mourners, wearing white paper flowers on their padded winter jackets, gathered to place wreaths around the Monument of the People's Heroes. Bands of weeping youths gathered to sing the "Internationale" and raise their clenched fists. All over the city people wept unashamedly before portraits of Chou. At midweek the remains were taken to the Great Hall of the People, where party officials listened to a eulogy delivered by Teng Hsiao-ping. A silent mass of people lined the Avenue of Eternal Tranquillity as the hearse bearing...
...methods and weapons employed are not always officially approved. Some guards are trained to scatter jagged miguelitos (twisted nails) from armored cars to block off escape routes. Private security vehicles sometimes carry flamethrowers. "Some agencies use all the methods of the guerrillas," says Agrelo. "But the best weapon is to prevent an attack from occurring. If an executive knows what to look for and is trained in anti-kidnaping techniques, all the arms become almost unnecessary...
...trauma of their arrival, the Vietnamese will probably fare as well in America as past immigrants. They will not have the impact of the 650,000 Cubans who fled from Castro and settled largely-and for the most part successfully-in Miami. They are more likely to scatter throughout the country in the manner of the 38,000 Hungarians who escaped to America after the 1956 revolution was crushed by the Soviets. Like the Cubans and the Hungarians, the Vietnamese are mostly middle-class people who should be able to overcome social obstacles and make a decent living. Says...