Word: leape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bringing along her demind-boyfriend to be skewered by Norman's verbal parries. The dentist (Debney Coleman), incidentally, is the real McCoy; he wears a light blue cotton Suit, a white and blue plaid short and a dark solid tie. Now that is a dentist. What requires a great leap of faith is understanding why Chelsea wants to unload the dentist's 13-year-old son on Ethel and the old bastard for a month while she and the dentist traipse around Europe. But skepticism never got anyone anywhere in the wonderful world of Sorman Rock well and Norman Vincent...
There are others, too, who have made the great leap forward. Joe Mullen, for instance, perhaps the greatest player ever to come out of Boston College, recently resurfaced on the St. Louis Blues after a lengthy sojourn in the minors. Only a few weeks ago. Mullen slammed the puck home twice in a mere eight seconds to push the Blues well out in front of Minnesota...
...Threat to Peace is the Soviet Union's rejoinder to the Reagan Administration's slick 99-page analysis, released last September, of Moscow's strategic and conventional arms buildup. Many of the claims made in the Soviet booklet are false, but the production represents a quantum leap in Moscow's mastery of military propaganda...
...claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day, I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seveteen hours a..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...
...DAYS swing onward, galumph, galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this...