What makes Tom Cruise run — run harder and run faster, leaping from one building and dangling off another, the world's tallest — as he does to exhausting, unnerving effect in "Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol," his latest exercise in extreme performance?
A male spends his days in the Kenyan savanna in a small bachelor group until he's able to race faster and leap higher than other males, becoming a top dog.
Johann Renvall's new "Spirit of Liberty" got the program off to an exuberant start, with a sleek, fast-moving parade of a ballet for dancers dressed in red, white and blue who spun fast and leaped high with commendable precision and seeming abandon.
Luckily, my blushes were usually spared by staying ahead of the pack – it is an absurdly fast ride, leaping forward like a racehorse; I shaved minutes off my short commute.
Previous generations of Bach interpreters have emphasized the music's steady Baroque symmetries and violinistic brilliance, but in Tetzlaff's hands Bach's faster movements leaped and swayed, as if recalling their past lives as dances.
At their best, his "Trips and Trysts" (2000) and "Mix 25" (1996) draw on that early style in jutting, often skewed limbs and fast-spinning, leaping travel that emphasizes the moves rather than any destination.
I have never seen anyone leap so fast or so high as she did when one scuttled across the floor, pursued by me with a bar of soap.
