Word: leape
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Looking back at the awards season of 1998-99, it's hard not to feel some chagrin. That was the year Roberto Benigni did his clown's leap to the stage to pick up his Best Actor Oscar, but in retrospect, the issue isn't that Benigni beat out Nick Nolte, Edward Norton, Ian McKellen and Tom Hanks for the award; it's that Jeff Bridges wasn't even nominated. His deft, hilarious, thrillingly perfect performance as Jeffrey Lebowski, a.k.a. the Dude, in the Coen brothers' genius film The Big Lebowski should have been showered with prizes. Instead, the only...
...raise a dead person," adding good-naturedly, "It did improve my altar call that night." Roberts provided no details. Later his son Richard expanded the revivification claim, asserting that in 50 or 60 cases, Oral and other ministers had raised the dead. It was, perhaps, not that great a leap from one of the original miracles that helped make Roberts' name in the 1950s: he claimed to have prayed with a crippled 10-year-old boy in Roanoke, Va., and, as the story goes, the boy's withered leg - 21 inches short - grew back to normal overnight...
...Michael was excellent tonight,” Donato said. “He was a going concern every time he had the puck, and he’s a guy who’s taken a big leap this year. I think he’ll be a real key player to us as we hopefully surge to a better second half...
Cooley never forgot the tragedy, but his confidence didn't waver. "I don't know why, but I was never afraid to jump," he once said. That's uncommon nerve, even by the standards of men who leap into flames...
...they can't afford to ignore discounting from online retailers. "If they can't get the consumer off of Amazon and into their store, then they'll lose the entire share of wallet, not just the one product that they lost to Amazon," says Rick Smith, author of The Leap and founder of Marketing50...