It breeds on mostly on small inland bodies of water such as marshy ponds, temporary pools, roadside ditches and slow floating rivers.
Rarely did words and music sync together explicitly; the music was in slow, floating rubato, anchored by short minor-key melodies.
In the first women's singles semifinal of the BNP Paribas Open, Caroline Wozniacki and Angelique Kerber engaged in several lengthy rallies filled with moonballs, an affectionate term for high, slow, floating shots usually hit with the forehand.
The Becker-Shore film is a beautiful fifteen minutes, silent save for Satie's plangent "Gymnopédie No. 1" (not nearly the cliché that it later became), with slow, floating pans of Atget's photographs of empty Paris streets and bridges and parks.
The woman, who's in a long blue dress, her hair in a bun, her face lighted with a beatific smile, is shown in slow motion, floating down the street like someone from a French Impressionist painting.
He noted that in Los Angeles, the Water Department covered a reservoir with $34.5 million worth of black plastic balls to slow evaporation; floating solar panels might have served the same purpose and also generated energy.
They had just had a hit record ("Let's Stay Together"), and kept pushing their music in a new direction: a slowed-down, floating, meditative, bizarrely sensual Memphis soul, radically different from the brawnier Stax records sound.
Several images in "Original Face" hauntingly suggested Icarus in a long, slow float to another place.
Also on the program are a few of Brock's lighter pieces, including "Slow Float" and "Curious Episode," a duet that teasingly fiddles with the contrasts between jazz and classical forms, echoing Claude Bolling's playful "Baroque and Blue".
Not to mention the challenge of New York's Labor Day parade this Saturday, when The Rat rides up Fifth Avenue on a very slow float under a very hot sun.
