When Evel Knievel failed to leap the Snake River Canyon in 1974, he rode a vehicle powered by Robert C. Truax's rockets.
I don't think readers will fall as deeply in love with this curiously cold woman, whose inner life fails to leap off the page.
In too many respects on Saturday, however, these three ballets failed to leap out of history and into the present tense.
"If you see a little less spring in my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you'll know why," Mr. Heston said.
But as an entry into the next generation of console gaming, it often fails to leap as far as you may expect.
When Evel Knievel failed to leap the Snake River Canyon or at least die trying on the same September Sunday 26 years ago on which President Ford pardoned former President Nixon, a promoter of the first event dismissed the outrage of TV viewers.
Since the Mets have failed to leap over the Braves and have settled for the wild card for the last two seasons, they must have felt relief and satisfaction about clinching against Atlanta.
However, UK ministers failed to leap into action, merely putting out a tepid 'wait and see' response.
A game that had already seen shortstop Hanley Ramirez drop a routine grounder for an error and left-fielder Carl Crawford fail to make a leaping catch at the wall, the ball ricocheting off his glove for a triple, saw the two combine on the game-turning miscue.
But many of these games fail to make the leap from one medium to another.
