Word: leapings
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...inductee who drifts unprepared into his local board's maw is as hopelessly doomed as the cow who placidly rides the slaughterhouse conveyor belt. There are chances to escape-times when the belt slows down, opportunities for a smart cow to leap off and run away. But unless the potential carcass knows precisely how to seize his chances for freedom, he will join thousands of his fellows at the other end of the abattoir...
Skip Hare won both the long jump and the triple jump. the former with a leap of 24 feet 4 inches, and Chris Alvord again doubled...
...show of Nineteenth Century American Art which arrived to replace the modern exhibition has transformed the domain beyond recognition. Representational paintings of mountain landscapes, stern portraits of government leaders, scenes of domestic life now sit where the abstract geometrical colors of the avant-garde did in the fall. The leap from nineteenth to twentieth century shows the revolution in sensibility that slashed through the old tradition, when artists gave up sketching images of the world and began to struggle with abstract pictures...
...product, however, is simply too much detail. When Russell attempts an outdoor scene, it looks more like he's constructed a horizonless hot-house. Consequently, in key sequences-as when Birken abandons the intellectual Hermione (Eleanor Bron) in order to submerge himself in nature-one never makes the necessary leap from physical facts to the metaphoric meanings. Why Birken isn't tearing himself apart with prickly burrs as he rolls naked in the ferns and bushes is a more absorbing question than why he stripped in the first place...
...they will exchange formal greetings and sample champagne and canapes. Despite the casual air, however, the delegates realize that they will have little time to waste. Unless the two nations move quickly they may very well miss an opportunity to prevent the nuclear arms race from taking a quantum leap...