Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...companies designing and producing the high-technology components of the business office of the future are prospering lavishly. Sales are already approaching $30 billion annually and are expected to leap to nearly $100 billion a year by 1990. In addition to such giants as IBM, Xerox and Honeywell, the field is filling up with a host of newcomers. flush with billions in oil profits, Exxon Corp. has entered the market with its new unit, Exxon Office Systems Co., which is manufacturing and selling a range of desktop word processing devices. The company's QWIP transceiver sends and receives over...
...leaves are frazzled and fraying now, the hues of mid-fall gone. But a trace of the brilliance remains, enough to stir the stomach. New Hampshire retains its quaint mystique, the facade that the media and the politicos penetrate in February of every leap year. Something intangible, but pervasive, emanates from this state of towns carved from foothills. It draws the curious observer, and so eight months after the primary, the search begins anew...
...Starving Class last spring at the Suffolk University Theater. Many elements of the Murphy style have carried into this Boston Shakespeare Company production, most notably a preference for stylized gesture and loose body movement that suggests an undercurrent of sexuality. From Shepard to Shakespeare is quite a leap, however; and whereas the looseness provides some fine moments (a giddy Macbeth sprawling pitifully on the ground while plotting Banquo's death), the stylization produces tiresome histrionics (Macbeth: "O! full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife." Macbeth clutches head, presumable to show us scorpions) redolent of countless mediocre productions of Shakespeare...
...insight into the birth, care and feeding of this new genre, Wolfe avoided mention of its central concern. The New Journalists cared about their subjects. Sometimes the journalists hated their subjects, but they always tried to understand, and get inside. This leap of empathy--even if it wasn't necessarily sympathy--separated the new breed from their predecessors up in the bleachers...
...alienate viewers who have slipped into the theater in search of a Deborah Harry concert and instead found a tongue-in-chic study of a man very much like their least favorite neighbor. Other moviegoers, who may not know Blondie from Dagwood, are advised to take the leap onto the hard rocks of New Jersey funk. -By Richard Corliss