By leapfrogging back, over the methods of the classical cinema, to the ancient, he leapt ahead into an audacious modernism.
Even in a book that leapfrogs back and forth across four decades, chronology can't be suspenseful if it doesn't make sense.
Now, an upstart manufacturer, Detroit Bikes, is hoping to spur a made-in-America revival of sorts in the city, by leapfrogging back to Detroit's roots as a cycling town.
What makes I Am Divine so much fun is that it leapfrogs back half a century to a time when long hair was shocking, unwed pregnancy was a scandal, homosexuality was illegal (and almost invisible), smoking reefer turned you communist, and rock'n'roll was a conspiracy to mongrelise and enslave the once-proud white race.
Now, in "The Grand Budapest Hotel," he leapfrogs back from the present day to 1985, 1968, and, ultimately, to 1932, to tell a story of work and art, friendship and love that is about the rise of Nazism and the German occupation of much of Europe — in particular, one small, no-longer-extant Central European country, Zubrowka, where the hotel of the title is located.
Now, in "The Grand Budapest Hotel," he leapfrogs back from the present day to 1985, 1968, and, ultimately, to 1932, to tell a story of work and art, friendship and love that is about the rise of Nazism and the German occupation of much of Europe in particular, one small, no-longer-extant Central European country, Zubrowka, where the hotel of the title is located.
Ipswich wasted the opportunity to leapfrog Brentford back into the play-off places despite Daryl Murphy's 22nd goal of the season.
DC United began the game knowing that getting at least a point would result in them leapfrogging Orlando, back into the final playoff position.
