Then there's Pappy's Last Show Ever, probably the best (and certainly the most moving) sketch show I've seen in 15 years, and which encouraged a great leap forward for creatively ambitious group comedy.
The Great Leap Forward that Mao began in 1958 set ambitious goals without the means to meet them.
In 1958 he sought to go further, launching the Great Leap Forward: a plan to modernise the entire Chinese economy so ambitious that it tipped over into insanity.
Ambitious collusions of live performers and interactive video are not intrinsically a great leap forward for opera, as anyone who was disappointed by Robert Lepage's troublesome rendition of Wagner's "Ring" at the Metropolitan Opera can confirm.
Hunan's provincial party leader was purged in 1958 for opposing the economic policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 60) and was replaced by supporters of Mao Zedong's more ambitious and radical policies.
Gee, great leap forward there.
The greatest leap forward Acknowledgements Reprints.
That promises the next leap forward".
That was a major leap forward".
