Word: gambolling
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...Mojave Desert just before dawn. As the sun rose over the horizon, a skywriting pilot named V. E. Noble received a radio signal and began tracing a stem, leaves and petals to form history's largest "sunflower." But the fierce glare frustrated attempts to record the $5,000 gambol on film. Explains Williams, eyes aglow: "The idea wasn't to see it, really. The idea was for people to hear about it and say, 'Yes.' " It is all a part of the philosophy of joy, hymned in his Life Song...
...Brenda's parents sleep in another part of their lavish Westchester home, the couple gambol in the percales, certain that they are in an endless summer. But a chill of guilt becomes pervasive when she returns to Radcliffe. The parents discover the diaphragm she has "forgotten" to hide, and the assault of letters and threats begins. To Neil, the affair suddenly becomes serious but not desperate; to Brenda, it is desperate but not serious. The lovers collect their severance pay-Brenda the suffocating devotion of her parents, Neil an ineradicable bitterness...
There may be youthful uncertainties in her work, but most often her talent allows her to gamble and gambol...
...script that has lines like "It's my funeral; you're just along for the ride," McQueen stops acting and settles for a series of long poses. Dunaway, hired before Bonnie and Clyde was released, is used solely as a clotheshorse out for a long gambol. Giving his film a "now" look and his characters an ironic, detached air, Director Jewison obviously hoped to play his movie cool. But there are several degrees between cool and frigid: a degree of wit, a degree of plot and a degree of that old unbuyable, style. Their absence stops the movie...
Nymph on a Gambol. Unlike Balanchine, who drills his girls until they look like so many identical windup dolls, Joffrey encourages his dancers to express their own personalities. Feathery Lisa Bradley, 20, is a fragilely beautiful study in symmetry; fiery Luis Fuente, 20, is built like a blockbuster and has the same impact; sinuous Trinette Singleton, 19, dances like a sensuous nymph out for a gambol; and then there is airborne Robert Blankshine, 19, who has mastered the neat little trick of sailing into the wings as he kicks the back of his head. They all help give the Joffrey...