At Stanford, "he'd skidded from department to department, adding and dropping courses, trying on majors in the same inquisitive and fastidious manner he tried on clothes".
And while Hunter does not admit it, Shawn Bates, his teammate and housemate, says the 23-year-old Hunter is sensitive about his hairline, which has skidded from center ice to Mother Nature's blue line.
Over the course of his campaign, the mild-mannered boomer liberal skidded from scandal to lucky accident, rebranding himself like a cola, until his candidacy was stubbed out in a burst of bureaucracy at the convention.
In New York, the hub of the messenger world, the number has skidded from 2,500 during the dotcom frenzy in the 1990s to an estimated 1,100 today, according to Joel Metz, who runs www.messengers.org, the website of the International Federation of Bike Messenger Associations.The reason is straightforward.
Somehow, in the space of about 100 hours, the value of a share of Bear Stearns, one of the nation's most storied investment banks, skidded from about $67 to a bargain-basement $2. On Monday, just to twist the knife, some wit taped a $2 bill to the glass doors of Bear's headquarters.
Ms. Taylor is not alone, however, in worrying that the sport that once spawned a national craze is headed for the same fate it met in the mid-1970s, when it skidded from the popular consciousness as unceremoniously as the Bee Gees.
Skidding from nuptials to nastiness in a matter of months, Nat Rosee Byrne and Joshh (Rafe Spall) could not be more mismatched.
Maher's eyes suddenly skid from side to side as if his face were a pinball machine.
Still, he feels the need to explain how easily, how naturally, revolutions skid from hope to horror.
Itchy (Mitchell won't give it a name) has no corporeal existence of its own; instead, it skids from host to host.
Pimple-faced, voice treacherously skidding from baritone to falsetto, I tried to explain to my father that religion had always done more bad in the world than it had done good: What about the Spanish Inquisition?
