Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concise as "The Honored Dead" has to be re-read at least once: a tour de force of technique, the story explores the complex mixture of guilt, hate, envy, love, and grief that William a young husband and father, feels for Eddie his oldest and best friend. The story jump about in time to tell how William avoided the draft and courted Ellen, his future wife, while Eddie was killed in Vietnam, and how Eddie possibly fathered Ellen's child before he was killed. Watching the little girl now, William wonders, and finds it "not so simple now as then...
...excited the audience. "When You Smile" followed, so honestly sung that the lyrics. "Well it seems like the end of the world when you smile," gained credibility they never had on record, and "Definitely Clean," featured catchy playing and an engaging beat. Pushing towards the stage, people began to jump about and dance. Then the performance fell apart...
...jumping events co-captain Gus Udo won the long jump with a leap of 23-ft 2-in and led teammates Mark Henry and Shawn Hall to a sweep of the triple jump Henry also won the high jump and qualified for the IC4As with a leap of 6 ft 10 1/4-in...
...blasting out the Romantics' "What I Like About You" and driving us into a New Wave frenzy. There's no resting now; no slow songs for a change of pace. "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show forces us once again to perform--this time it's a jump to the left, a step to the right, our hands on our hips, and our legs in tight. We all thrust our communal pelvises, though this time it hurts...
...When it ended, Moore and Cook went on to do a television series and five movies, including Bedazzled, their zany version of the Faust legend. Their style was blithe, bizarre humor that turned logic upside down. In Bedazzled, for instance, they invented an order of leaping nuns who would jump on trampolines to get closer to God. In their knockabout revue Good Evening, which ran almost continuously for five years, they constructed an imaginary restaurant buried deep in the Yorkshire moors. It was called the Frog and the Peach, and there were only two entrées on the menu...