Word: leaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players, most of them peasants the director discovered in Orgosolo, bring to their roles a pithecanthropic power that few actors could suggest; and the landscape of Sardinia is astonishing, a scene of Pre-Cambrian catastrophe. On every side great ridges of bare rock burst out of the earth, leap up to the sky, fall back in fragments. Seen from a summit, the whole island resembles a titanic skeleton over which man wanders like...
...transom, and the smooth sides of their hulls are broken with a series of jutting longitudinal strakes, like steps. In high waves, the strakes and deep V keep the hull level, nose down so that it knifes through the waves, while flat-sterned powerboats tend to leap off the crest of each swell and crash heavily into the trough. The result, according to Bertram: "less slip, more control"-and 40% higher speeds...
John Bakkensen headed a one-two Crimson finish in the discus with a meet record effort of 169 ft., 4 1/2 in. Chris Pardee won the high jump against weak opposition with a 6 ft., 4 in. leap. Captain Ed Meeham copped the 880-yard...
...last Crimson win came in the triple jump, as Ohiri smashed his Army opposition and the meet standard in the event with a fine leap...
After a Jan. 2 leap from a Harvard St. apartment window, Asseyev met with Soviet and American officials in Cambridge City Hospital to arrange for permission to stay in this country after the expiration of his official visa in June. Whle the Feb. 29 incident did not change his status with the State Department, he was free to reconsider his decision until June...