Word: springboarded
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...action, as she claims, simply a display of fierce southern pride and a desire to spark debate? Or is it a disingenuous attention-getting ploy designed as a springboard for a political campaign on a conservative ticket? And in fact, is she really an ardent Southerner, or is she using that identity as a guise, an excuse for causing the current controversy...
...tried to use [this meet] as a springboard for Army," senior John Manson said. "They're the real focus for the fall...
...working on, film director (and fellow clarinetist) Woody Allen. Several months ago, Tom began doing research for a piece on Marsalis. "But the more I looked at today's jazz scene," he says, "the more I realized that there was a bigger story there: Wynton's success was the springboard for a jazz renaissance in which a whole new generation of talented young players was taking the music to a mainstream audience...
...America screenwriter John Eskow counters that Robbins is "morally despicable," having lost a bid to be credited as co-author of the screenplay. Says Eskow: "The book wasn't interesting enough to serve as the movie's sole springboard. I had to do other research. I spoke to Air America pilots here and went to Thailand." Besides, he argues, a screenplay "is a creative act. It is not a documentary, and it doesn't advertise itself that...
Walesa, though, has grown unhappy playing second fiddle to Mazowiecki. While the Prime Minister was in Warsaw making policy and winning headlines, Walesa has been running what often seemed a shadow government from a second-floor office near the Gdansk shipyards that were his springboard into history. In recent weeks he began criticizing the government for the slow pace of reform. Says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences: "He is having to share a stage that was once his alone, and he doesn't like...