Word: slipping
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...square, is covered closely with 1,240 barely visible rectangles. And when examined with a microscope, each tiny rectangle spreads out into a page of the Bible. Both the Old and New Testament - all 773,746 words of the King James Version - are all clearly recorded on that one slip of plastic. The job took only four hours...
Tammy is a genie out of another bottle. From a mouth carved by a razor she lets slip songs and dialogue as if they were secret vices. Other people speak; Tammy makes animal noises. She looks like a love goddess playfully absent without leave from the moon...
...strakes, like steps. In high waves, the strakes and deep V keep the hull level, nose down so that it knifes through the waves, while flat-sterned powerboats tend to leap off the crest of each swell and crash heavily into the trough. The result, according to Bertram: "less slip, more control"-and 40% higher speeds...
...water, she is a skillful skier. On snow for the first time, Jacqueline Kennedy found that there's many a slip 'twixt slope and slalom. At Stowe, Vt., with Fellow Tyro Caroline and a watching clutch of Kennedys (John-John, Bobby and his family, Teddy and his wife, and Eunice Shriver), Duffer Jackie took her tumbles in good form. Her instructor, former Olympic Ski Coach Pepi Gabl, said diplomatically: "She was very good, but it's hard to say about a skier's ability the first time...
...times Barbra Streisand bears an uncanny resemblance to Fanny Brice, but echoes of yesteryear are not the real point. For in her own right Streisand is the compleat clown, psychologically foiling the world by supplying her own banana peels to slip on. Her face is a choppy sea of doubletalk, and her talk tries to take back what her face just said. She is an anthology of the awkward graces, all knees and elbows, or else a boneless wonder, a seal doing an unbalancing act. All her devices are attention-getting devices and point astutely to the gnawing doubt...