Word: footedly
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Touching down on the West Side of Manhattan in late winter was a wondrous new vehicle for transport to the stars: the Hayden Planetarium, centerpiece of the $210 million Rose Center for Earth and Space. The 87-foot aluminum sphere that is the Hayden's core seemed to float inside a 10-story glass-walled cube, which is the Hayden's outer shell. "A cosmic cathedral," was how architect James Polshek proudly described his creation. A planetarium is, of course, only a transmitter of outer space to those of us on terra firma. By contrast, the new space station...
...year rife with space-age communication, space-age travel, once a presumed inevitability of the new millennium, wasn't happening. Instead, the hip mode of transportation evoked the era of Eisenhower, if not the Flintstones. The foot-propelled scooter captivated virtually every age group in every community across America. Collapsible, portable and all but useless for even medium-distance commutes, the scooter achieved enough prominence to generate its own backlash: injuries to riders, irritation to pedestrians. For the duration of its extended moment, the scooter answered a nostalgia for an earlier age and a desire for frivolity in this...
...course, they put one foot in front of another. They manage to stay upright. They are ambulatory. But they move very, very slowly; they look up in the air; and most frustrating of all, they walk abreast. All of the other things are tolerable but that...
...over a press conference with a virtuosity news cameras hadn't seen since General Norman Schwarzkopf's famous briefing at the end of the Gulf War. As Boies carefully articulated the Vice President's positions in a Midwestern rasp--he grew up in small-town Illinois--his hands, a foot or so apart, moved as if he were gently shaking a box to see what was inside...
...matter what the vice president chooses to do over the next several years, friends and advisers suspect he will keep at least one foot firmly planted in the political sphere - and his name and likeness highly visible. And while the sting of his defeat at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court may linger, he can take some comfort in new numbers released Tuesday by the Gallup Organization. According to the granddaddy of polls, Gore's approval rating has shot up in the days since he gave his concession speech. Fifty-seven percent of Americans polled regard him favorably, versus...