Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jump in an' that sorry little life guard yells, "Hey, hey, hey." Knight slumped down in a chair. "Duv' off that board a few times, he was blowin' that foolsh little whistle, and baby, we walked out just as straight...
People get into the Movement in strange ways. This was Knight's way. Two evenings later, we told about it at mass meeting. The jump was one of those brilliant, total, solid-silver triumphs that satisfy so perfectly a basic human need, and Knight was applauded to the speaker's stand...
...other law enforcement agencies had already had their eyes on the three men; they complained that by ordering his troopers to jump in with premature arrests, the Governor had all but ruined the chance that the three could ever be convicted of the church bombing. And that was the way it turned out. Without sufficient evidence of the bombing, Wallace's officials finally settled for a charge of illegally possessing dynamite, a misdemeanor about as common in Birmingham as jaywalking in many a U.S. city...
...standards are as stern as the dueling scars on his cheek. In a recent session with a 68-year-old baritone, Felsenstein abandoned his instructions only when the old man collapsed at his feet in seizures of nausea. When a singer once demurred at a Felsenstein command to jump onto the stage from a seven-foot tower, Felsenstein jumped himself to demonstrate how safe it was. He broke his arm but was back at rehearsal 45 minutes later to wave his cast in encouragement as the despairing singer finally jumped...
...however, is more than an allegory, more than an amorous album. It is an inspired attempt to enlarge and liberate the language of film. Godard tries more cinematic tricks than most moviemakers risk in an entire career, and almost all of them come off. To make a shock scene jump and jitter, he boldly yanks occasional frames out of the sequence. To emphasize an idea, he brutally amputates an episode in mid-speech and lets a phrase fall through the mind like a severed hand. To retard a rhythm or invite a second thought, he serves up a fade...