Word: leapingly
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...surging fringe candidate Alan Keyes, who sermonized on the subject during Wednesday night's G.O.P. debate. At first McCain's debate responses were flat--he answered Keyes' philosophical question with a line about his pro-life Senate votes--but later he uncorked a strong set piece that managed to leap from abortion to his war record: "I've seen enough killing in my life," he told Keyes. "I know how precious human life is. And I don't need a lecture from...
...principal is asking us to take a big leap of faith, and we need to be more responsible than just leaping," says committee member Alice L. Turkel...
Perhaps only true sci-fi fans can pick up a book and note, without yelping in protest, that it takes place in roughly A.D. 3705. Yet Peter Ackroyd's The Plato Papers (Doubleday; 173 pages; $19.95) offers just such a leap forward in time with almost no accompanying science or fiction, at least in the sense of narrative exposition and descriptions of characters and settings. So what is Ackroyd, a prolific British biographer and novelist (The Life of Thomas More, English Music...
Indeed, it represents something of a leap forward for Campion from the strained improbabilities of The Piano, the choked feminism of Portrait of a Lady. There's a looseness about Holy Smoke! that's not quite improvisatory but not entirely locked down either. This spirit freshens the film and gives it somewhat the quality of being surprised at its own journey...
...about tech stocks. Last week newspapers reported that he upped his position in techs from 21% to 27% after just recently trimming it. But did he? The shift may say more about the tech sector's appreciation than it does about Stansky's strategy. The lesson: look before you leap after the headlines...