plunging back

Groups of friends in swimsuits and bikinis clamber aboard huge inner tubes that would normally be used on trucks and drift downstream, pulling in from time to time at river side bars where vodka shots are liberally administered, before plunging back into the water.

A Pittsburgh company, Astrobotic Technology, gave it a shot last month, but was derailed by a fuel leak that resulted in the lander plunging back through Earth’s atmosphere and burning up.

I hope only that what I have chosen to make does not offend and send us plunging back into triple-digit, record-breaking temperatures.

During the show, Campbell strutted down the catwalk in a bedazzled, sheer, floor-length gown with a halter neckline and plunging back.

Speaking over video chat last month from his North Salem, N.Y., home, Menken reflected on bringing “Aladdin” to the stage, plunging back into “The Little Mermaid” and the endurance of his legacy.