Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...India insists that the treaty include a commitment to nuclear disarmament, a quantum diplomatic leap other nuclear nations prefer to tackle later. The Indian Parliament says this only confirms the monopoly of the U.S, Russia, China, Britain and France Scot Woods...
...India insists that the treaty include a commitment to nuclear disarmament, a quantum diplomatic leap other nuclear nations prefer to tackle later. The Indian Parliament says this only confirms the monopoly of the U.S, Russia, China, Britain and France Scot Woods...
...movie also has a pleasantly surprising treat: a fine eye for physical comedy and comic bluff. (After all, dubbing can only have camp appeal for so long.) Here Chan wobbles on the top of a train; there Khan tries to leap into a house and bounces like a tennis ball off the window Chan has just closed. In another very funny bit, Chan, undercover with the help of an artificially effusive family, leads an escaped convict to hide in a village that he must pretend he grew...
...took 15 years, however, for Mahler to grow into an obsession. In the meantime, Kaplan had founded the investment magazine that made his fortune, and thus had the financial underpinning for what seemed an impossible leap: from Mahler fan to Mahler interpreter. "At age 40, I woke up one morning and knew in my mind that I was going to conduct this piece," says Kaplan...
...flight punctilio, with its bloodless ritual language--but as we strap ourselves in, our minds are projecting fireballs, and calculating odds, and trying to calm themselves more urgently than before. The worst part of jet travel is our eggs-in-a-carton passivity: inert flesh encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves) as statistically acceptable as ever, but psychologically harder now. The passengers on Flight 800 began a trajectory to the City of Light and ended, after a few minutes, in a burst, and then the profoundest blackness. An arc of time interrupted by eternity...