Word: leapings
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...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...
...form. At a recent meet in Havana, he failed to make 7 ft. 1 in. on his first jump and passed on his next two. The 6-ft. 6-in. Sotomayor has been slow to recover from an inflamed left knee. He predicted that it will take a leap of at least 7 ft. 9 in. to win in Atlanta. "I'm not going for the record," he said. "I only intend...
...love with him, as long as he moved. And silent-film star Douglas Fairbanks was the man who put the movies in motion. He climbed trees, rain spouts, a snake charmer's rope, a church facade. (Take the stairs? What's the fun in that?) And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft. away. Doug was a whiz with a rapier, a whip, a bola. He could somersault off a horse, trampoline from one speeding car to another...
...role in the killings, and endured five hours of questioning by prosecutors on Thursday night. "Somewhere between the time Hass spoke to prosecutors and the time he went to bed, something must have spooked him," says Vlahou. "At his age, something must have truly horrified him to make him leap off the terrace. After all, he is 84 years old. What does he have to lose?" Game...
...terrible night in 1968 Douglass Adair, then a teacher at the Claremont colleges, walked into their bedroom and killed himself. His widow's agony and incomprehension, in poems reflecting lost love, all but leap from page to reader's eye. "One Ordinary Evening" revisits a moment of marital intimacy: entwined on a sofa, they listen to Wagner on the phonograph. Then...