Word: slipping
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...fresh dimensions that bedazzle and often trick the eye. In Vaudeville, for example, a trio of dancers in hooped robes froze into off-center angles that looked gravitationally impossible, then somehow contorted their bodies to look like snails, then toadstools. By the projection of silhouettes on a backdrop, a slip of a girl was transformed into a creature of menace, revealing refinements of line unnoticed in the round. In the final act, the ten-member company, chattering like chimps, cavorted about the stage with sections of aluminum tubing, which they suddenly fashioned into a 16-ft.-high Tower of Babel...
...read Bill's speech on the arrogance of power, and I analyzed it," he said to Fulbright's wife. "You don't have to worry about the arrogance of power when you get notes like this from our cook Zephyr," he twitted her husband. Pulling a slip of paper from his pocket Johnson read aloud...
...automobile industry is feeling the bite of widespread criticism on car safety. Sales are dropping, plants are shutting down temporarily and executives like Arjay Miller, president of Ford, are muttering about how "harassment" over safety has contributed to the slip in demand...
...third quarter. Finally, with a ten-point lead and 25 sec. to go, out came the famous cigar. Programs, paper cups, hats and pillows filled the air; screaming fans mobbed the Boston bench. With all those distractions, the Celtics could be pardoned for letting the Lakers slip in a few baskets; then they froze the ball...
Since Sellers was working while golfing, Walsh sued both him and his company for $250,000, claiming that Sellers had negligently failed to wipe his hands before swinging, causing the club to slip. In answer, Sellers moved to have the suit dismissed on a seemingly unassailable ground: anyone who ventures on a golf course "assumes the risk of being struck by a ball" and is thus barred from seeking damages...