Word: leape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only a matter of time, of course, before Elvira brought her many charms to the big screen. (Actually, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark is not Peterson's screen debut; she has had bit parts in a number of movies, including a Fellini film.) But the leap from TV to film is not a large one for Elvira: she brought along her TV writing team, veteran music video director James Signorelli and the financing muscle of NBC productions...
...while rebuilding a competitive-diving program after the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese were inspired when they competed against Greg Louganis and his American teammates in the People's Republic. They vowed to master the great leap downward. Just eight years later, a squad of dazzling and determined divers from China, noted for their splash-free entries, are plunging after Louganis' records...
Beamon's record will be the toughest to overtake. The jump was almost surreal. In the 33 years since Jesse Owens jumped 26 ft. 8 1/4 in., the mark had increased only 8 1/2 in. In one leap, Beamon raised it by nearly 2 ft. Since then, Carl Lewis has jumped over 28 ft. 22 times without a disqualifying trailing wind. Only eight other legal 28-ft. jumps have been recorded. Lewis' best is 4 1/4 in. short of Beamon's. Although he has won 55 consecutive long- jump competitions, Lewis is also well remembered for passing his last four...
...Watch my vice-presidential decision," Bush urged in a TIME interview three weeks ago. "That will tell all." To the Vice President, the selection of Quayle, 41, a blond, boyish, baby-boom, back-bench Senator from Indiana, represented a bold leap across generational boundaries. Bush, it seemed, had looked in the mirror and found what was most needed in the second-banana role that he had played for eight years: a younger version of himself. Quayle radiates the same bumptious enthusiasm, the same uncritical loyalty, the same palpable gratitude and the same malleable mind-set that Bush brought...
...maglev trains do indeed get off the tracks by the 1990s, as their builders claim, they will be bound for imminent glory. Seldom has a new leap in technology been as sorely needed. Major air-travel arteries in Europe, the U.S. and Japan are clogging up so badly so fast that the clean, fast and efficient maglev could prove to be their salvation. Not surprisingly, the race to get the maglev to the market has turned into a sprint. Equally unsurprising are the contestants: West Germany and Japan...