Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These swings are, humanly enough, magnified by corporate officers, who pooh-pooh losses while boasting about profit increases in hyperbolic press releases. The press then magnifies the problem by often reporting profits in language more appropriate to space shots or sporting events: profits leap, soar, skyrocket-or plunge, plummet, nosedive...
...more dutiful leap toward modern realism takes place in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and falls a bit off-balance. Williams actually meant Paul Newman's character, the football star on the skids, to be haunted by his betrayal of a male lover (here, a male friend). They had to gloss over all the hints in this version, but Newman does well with the toothless make-shift. Elizabeth Taylor doesn't deliver the performance I expected from the legend, but those fond remembrances may have hailed back mostly to her more svelte youth. And both actors have...
...whose capable leadership has made the factory more productive than it ever was before the uncrossable lines between management and worker were broken down. It is this kind of worker participation that Mao's clique hoped to establish, as well as ending the technocracy developed during the Great Leap Forward. What was hard to see in the schools and the Red Guards' marches becomes apparent to the Miltons in Shanghai, that there was an ideological purpose behind the rhetoric, and that that purpose did have a basis in the economy...
Scum, scum, ah, yes, we were talking about Hunter Thompson. The Mad Dog of modern journalism stunned the reading public when he made The Great Leap of Faith in print and endorsed Jimmy Carter two months ago in Rolling Stone. [MORE]'s piece on the Thompson conversion not only exposes Carter's conscious seduction process, but also happens to be the finest parody ever of the bent Thompson style...
...second week of women's events promised to bear a marked resemblance to the first. The East German women, holders of seven of the 14 records in track and field, took an immediate giant step forward when Angela Voigt, 25, won the long jump with a leap of 22 ft. ½ in. Right behind Voigt, and indeed, perhaps past her if she had not, fouled on her last try, was high-flying Kathy McMillan, 18, of Raeford, N.C. Not since 1968 at Mexico City had the U.S. women won a silver or gold. Saturday afternoon the East German lightning...