Word: hopscotch
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...dreams Swimming with calico carps And riding Dalmatian giraffes Climbing bougainvillea vines into the skies I treasure your happiness As you hopscotch in the early rain Or tag me with bean bags And kiss my bruised neck ... -Bill Bonanno from an untitled poem to his daughter Gigi...
...patch, who handles complaints from outsiders; and the ride superintendent, whom Truzzi and Easto describe as "a kind of grand mechanic." All of these aristocrats outrank the owners of rides, shows and concessions-second-string entrepreneurs who either sign up with the carnival owner for a season or "hopscotch" from one carnival to another...
...reader has to be in literary training to follow Mosley's hopscotch course. He is one of a number of writers, the best of them Nabokov, whose subject is often the nature of creativity itself. What fictional furniture there is seems of secondary importance, to be moved around at will. Tony seems negligent and disillusioned. He is married to Elizabeth, whom he "likes," but his only real involvement is an obsessive affair with Natalia Jones, the wife of another M.P. On the face of it Natalia seems a routine bitch. Her jealousy, her suicide threats, her retreat...
...plane on which Scott was a passenger turned out to be the last one permitted to leave Jordan. Flamini could not get out, and Scott could not get back in. "Our little game of hopscotch didn't work," Scott lamented in Beirut. "We haven't heard from Roland since." Presumably, Flamini was trapped with other newsmen at Amman's besieged Inter-Continental Hotel...
Folk Hero. Meanwhile, Torrijos dashed back to Panama-after a fashion. After a long, hopscotch flight back from Mexico in a small plane, Torrijos finally landed by the light of torches at a remote airstrip near David, 300 miles west of Panama City. Then came a triumphant, ten-hour ride into the capital in a fleet of rattletrap buses whose entourage of private cars and cheering campesinos grew at every hamlet...