Word: leaping
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...a.k.a. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), is still the teen dweeb from Queens with a crush on the girl next door (Kirsten Dunst), a dose of genetically altered spider DNA in his veins and a compulsion to save the world from the gaudy Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe). Sure, he can leap tall buildings with several sticky bounds, but he's also nearly grounded by a load of unresolved guilt. Plenty of classic heroes--Oedipus, Hamlet, Luke Skywalker--are obliged to kill a father figure; by the time this movie is over, Peter is responsible for the deaths of two such figures...
...once in their life, so it’s not the end of the world. Don’t worry about being awful, just take your best shot at it. You have to have courage, otherwise you will never lift off the ground. You have to take a flying leap. So it’s very important, I think, in anything artistic, to have the courage of your convictions. Make a choice and go for it. Even if you end up with egg in your face, it’s better than playing it safe and sticking close to home...
Fuller wasn’t done though, as he took second in the triple jump in just a single leap, falling only to freshman Travis Hughes. Freshman Zachary Raynor rounded out the sweep...
...times feels like Paxton is trying to stretch the skin of an hour-long episode onto the frame of a full-length feature. Frailty doesn’t delve into the father’s psyche, leaving the psychology out of the thriller, and uses one huge leap of improbable FBI procedure to span the gaping hole in his plot and stitch together the two disparate halves of his story...
...will be there and they will go to the NBA much better people, a bit more mature and I think a bit more ready to handle the emotional, psychological and social challenges that await them in the NBA. So if one can strengthen him or herself before making that leap, I think it is all the better. I look back on my four years in college and I wouldn’t trade them in for anything...