Word: leape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beaver may have made a grant leap for making that day. But in general the series was much more a reflection of the values that banned the Privey than a force of social change. It never tried to be. Honest and unpretentious, Leave It to Beaver was the 1950s far more than Happy Days, Grease or any of the other nostalgia pieces that sprang up in the last decade. The show's six-year run began in the cases twilight of the Eisenhower Administration and ended two and a half months before an angry man with a title climbed...
Between the toasts, talks and sightseeing tours, Reagan and the Chinese will be able to size each other up. If relations between the two countries have not always gone smoothly since Nixon's great leap twelve years ago, it is partly because both countries fostered unrealistically high hopes of what could be achieved. Barring some impolitic comment by either side about Taiwan, the Reagan road show through China cannot help raising the temperature of the friendship another few degrees...
...Tenterhook anxiety builds in the film's first hour as the scientists (led by Timothy Hutton and Lindsay Crouse) discover and then thaw out the creature (played by the gifted actor-director-choreographer John Lone). But once Hutton and the creature establish contact, moviegoers must make a great leap of faith, or surrender to the influence of an illegal hallucinogen, to watch the proceedings with a straight face. By then Director Fred Schepisi and Screenwriters Chip Proser and John Drimmer have all surrendered to Neanderthal sentimentality, and the rest is silliness...
...TIME reader who was listening to the radio last week while looking at the current issue of the magazine might have experienced the odd shock of hearing the language of some of the stories leap off the page: "The twisters left behind scenes that might have been conceived by a macabre surrealist-in some farming areas the dead bodies of cows were found hanging from trees . . ." or "If the complex mission works, Challenger will have shown the world that costly satellites need no longer be allowed to die wastefully in space...
...Santa Maria Valley's Sanford Winery and Monterey County's Ventana Vineyards regularly vary their labels: Sanford features wild flowers of the area, while Ventana uses dramatic color photos taken by Co-Owner Shirley Meador. Napa Valley's Frog's Leap has a whimsical depiction of, yes, a frog leaping. Inevitably, the Falcon Crest television series, based on a fictional California wine-making family, has inspired a wine of the same name; made by Napa Valley's Spring Mountain Vineyards, it uses the familiar screen mansion on its labels. A few East Coast vintners have...