Word: skippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economics section leader tangles himself up hopelessly in supply-and-demand curves, stares pitifully at the blackboard and stumbles on through a now useless explanation. A French section leader twirls her hair anxiously, prods a student for an answer and then says disgustedly, "We're just going to skip you." An Expository Writing teacher tries to carry on a class discussion while returning papers, but loses the attention of the class as they flip through the papers to find their grades...
...silent but justice, like Anna in Carlos Saura's recent haunting film, Cria. Or Violet could have childhood--the kid forced to grow up too core of vulnerability. (Jodie Foster's teenage comes to mind.) Instead, Violet's is a face not to lurk in corners but to skip through halls. Her coping mechanism, if it can be called that, is a sort of bitchiness. But it is a bitchiness that is not so much protective as just plain infantile--selfish and self-indulgent...
Stories, memories, reflections about Travolta come back a little like your favorite shirts from the cleaners: well laundered and stiff. Marilu Henner, a former Travolta flame from the Grease road company who is still a close friend, was reminiscing recently about how they would skip down the streets of Manhattan's West Side, making up little street improvisations to play out. One rainy day inspired a fantasy of sinister dealings in a dense London fog. "I'd say to him, 'Is 'e coming?' " Marilu laughs. "And John would look over his shoulder and say, 'No, I don't think...
...wrapped up the game and the championship on an empty-net goal by Skip House with less than 30 seconds left in the contest. The win guarantees the Eagles a place in the NCAA tournament, March 23-25, in Providence...
...Bronze Star during World War II and took his law degree from Fordham in 1950. After a year with a Wall Street firm, he joined the Justice Department, later prosecuting Smith Act cases for the Internal Security Division. Of his Communist-hunting days, Hundley is rueful: "I try to skip over that period." In 1967 Hundley left for private practice, gradually building a solid six-figure income in partnership with former Justice Department Colleague Plato Cacheris. Their old boss, onetime Criminal Division Chief Henry Petersen, who was badly tarnished by Watergate, shares office space with them. Says a friend: "They...