Word: leaping
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Negative advertising took a quantum leap in 1980, when a number of conservative groups successfully targeted liberal candidates, mostly Democrats, for defeat. This year no side has a monopoly on the practice, and the victims are hitting back. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Allen Ertel implied on the campaign trail that Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh bore part of the blame for a shooting spree by a deranged prison guard who killed 13 last month in Wilkes-Barre. In retaliation, Thornburgh put ads on television charging that his challenger was "silent" when white policemen in Harrisburg began selling Ku Klux Klan...
HUMAN NATURE is sufficiently complex that it is difficult enough to figure out why someone does something, let alone why someone doesn't. The fundamental reasons why very few minority students participate in varsity athletics at Harvard, then, are unlikely to leap...
During Campaign '82, PACs will directly donate at least $80 million to House and Senate candidates-a leap of more than 45% from 1980. Another $160 million may be spent by PACs on local races, independent political advertising, and administrative activities. Says Democrat James Shannon of Massachusetts: "PACs are visibly corrupting the system...
...observed. Evidently, neither can many prominent novelists. An increasing number are now in flight from the everyday world they used to chronicle. In his latest novel, God's Grace, Bernard Malamud conceived of a latter-day Noah, adrift on an ark. Doris Lessing has taken an apparently irreversible leap into outer space with her multivolume chronicle of "galactic empires." Now Joyce Carol Oates has again wandered off into the never-never land of the neo-gothic romance. In Oates' case, the purpose of the excursion is parody. A Bloodsmoor Romance, like the author's 1980 Bellefleur...
...grands jetes were supposed to be no more than a leap of the imagination. Grounded by a knee injury at 34, almost twice the age of some of his male colleagues, Mikhail Baryshnikov seemed destined for full-time duty as artistic director of the American Ballet Theater. But last week at the 19th century Teatro Nuovo at Spoleto, Italy, "Misha" returned to his airborne artistry, performing with elan in Other Dances, a new work by Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63. As for speculation that his turn as a dancer is almost over, "That 'almost' can mean...