Word: leapingly
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...surrounding neighborhood. That would avoid the duplication of costs when cities build, say, public libraries and school libraries. Other cities, including Chicago and Providence, R.I., have adopted the approach in individual neighborhoods, but no other city has thought about attempting it across the board. "It will be a quantum leap," says Steven Bingler, head of Concordia LLC, a New Orleans--based architecture and planning firm that has been spearheading the effort. "And it will be one of those things that it took a hurricane to get there...
...departure from her first three: instead of her reader-tested Victorian settings, she's jumped to the 1940s. Her mainstay of one or two central protagonists has evolved into an ensemble of characters. Oh, yeah - and the novel's narrative moves backwards in time. "It did feel like a leap of faith," reflects Waters, 39, eating satsumas in her publisher's London office. Her manner is almost shy, but she exudes a palpable self-possession. "I thought," she says, with a hint of wistfulness to her smile, "as much as I've loved staying in the 19th century, maybe...
...game music" was coming to a close. New consoles had the processing power and storage capacity to accommodate CD-quality audio, pushing game soundtracks into the realm of Hollywood films. Today's high-end video games often feature unreleased tracks or already famous compositions from established artists.Before its recent leap into the broader music world, game music was an insular genre, one which made the careers of aspiring composers like Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka and Koji Kondo in Japan. Only in his early twenties when he joined Nintendo in 1983, Kondo brought his classical training (and his love for Western rock...
...they are all the same underneath. Korine then includes a long close-up of one woman’s sleeves billowing wide enough to reveal the same red beneath her clothing. The women aren’t naked, but the symbolism is embarrassingly so.Still, the women manage to leap over male-imposed hurdles—symbolized here by actual hurdles. In the end, Marshall and two other women stand on a podium with fists in the air. But the message here isn’t Black Power; it’s Girl Power. Unfortunately this all just distracts from what...
...different from being a well-known personality and even commentator on public affairs, and the debating in the houses is a lot rougher than it is in a university hall,” he noted. “There are a lot of people who fail to make the leap from being a prominent personality to being an effective politician...