Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until then, however, the veteran coach will be depending on senior co-captain Sue Harper, who normally runs hurdles and the 400-meter relay, to leap into the jumping events...
...done recently by attempting to balance the budget in the coming fiscal year, a course urged by all Republican candidates. Carter is an undeniably deft-and extremely lucky-politician. He also is a relatively known quantity in the White House, whereas the inexperienced Reagan would require a definite leap of faith by voters supporting him. Says Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti: "There's a variation on the old cliché: you don't change horses' asses in midstream. You've got one, and at least you know its contours...
...because they have college basketball's most exciting player--senior guard Darrell Griffith. Just as Bill Walton, David Thompson and Earvin "Magic" Johnson had to be in there down to the wire, so does the 6-ft., 4-in. Griffith, who with his 48-in. vertical leap and a great outside shot is the premier offensive player in the college ranks...
...divergent elements as no wave, big band torch singing, Nicoesque arch-gothic vignettes, and mid-'60s bubble gum rock as if they were somehow destined to coalesce. Without ever having indicated that there was anything up her sleeve--much less between her ears--Lunch has made a tremendous musical leap of faith that will force even the most diehard of critics to reappraise her work...
...Systems of Romance, recorded in Germany with Conny Plank, a legendary producer of German electronic bands. On Systems of Romance, Ultravox abruptly departed from its first-record flirtations with Eno and the tempestuous attempts at punk mentality on the second release, Ha! Ha! Ha! The band took the Great Leap Forward, both in terms of control and content, shifting from mondo-meltdown rockers to cool and cerebral nouveau disco. The main interest moved to, the machines themselves. Push a button and watch the lights blink. It was hypnotic and irresistible...