Word: leapingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...entirely detached. In the hopeful, terrifying months leading up to this election, we canvassed, we telephoned voters in swing states, we taped signs up in our bedroom windows. We watched the debates. We wore pins. We argued about political issues with unselfconscious earnestness. But our greatest leap of faith was giving our hearts away to John Kerry with the ardor that remains, even in this irony-steeped era, both the gift and the burden of youth...
...Asian strongmen, dazzled by the moves of the new despot on the block: it's a bizarre moment, courtesy of Philip Short, a gifted biographer who knows his communists. (His acclaimed Mao: A Life ran nearly 800 pages.) After Mao's banquet of tyrannies?the Great Leap Forward alone killed more than 20 million Chinese?the Khmer Rouge leader should have been a mere after-dinner mint for Short. But Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare, the first biography of the dictator since his death in 1998, weighs in at 650-plus pages, and is the most definitive...
Armageddon: The state of contemporary American cinema is morphed into an apocalyptic nightmarescape in this 1998 film from famed Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay. Some of the most horrifying images every committed to celluloid leap off the screen, including Liv Tyler bemoaning her father’s sacrificial heroics and Ben Affleck crying. One sequence, however, stands out as eliciting a primordial fear in literally every audience member. In the scene, Affleck playfully animates an animal cracker “crawling” across Tyler’s exposed mid-section to an undisclosed location. But we?...
...theme of the power of language. The title becomes the key. At first it seems a small joke in reference to Bohr's logorrheaic writings, whose impenetrability became legendary. But gradually Ottaviani builds on Bohr's relationship with language. Near the end, the authors take a bold leap beyond the "fourth wall," using the comic language itself as the embodiment of Bohr's ideas. In a breathtaking moment, Bohr points to the gutter between panels and notes that it is two things simultaneously: a space and unit of time. The medium itself embodies his idea of a thing being...
...Away! With The Incredibles, about an alluringly oddball family of superheroes, Pixar makes a super leap forward...