May-Treanor and Walsh have proved again that they remain leaps ahead of the competition.
May-Treanor and Walsh have proved this year that they remain leaps ahead of the competition.
Then with just eight minutes remaining, Mackay leapt highest to meet Paul McVeigh's corner and his header looped in slow motion over Warren Barton on the far post and into the top corner.
Some were not content to remain there, leaping turnstiles, climbing fences, and entering through open windows.
Mark Bruce's The Odyssey made brave imaginative leaps while remaining true to the Homeric spirit; Wayne McGregor's Obsidian Tear tantalised us with compelling whispers of narrative; Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young's Betroffenheit led us into the dark heart of grief and loss.
That remained an imaginative leap too far: I can only guess.
"To remain is a leap in the dark because it is a commitment to an undefined relationship with a completely new country, or leave – the safe option – where we can try to re-establish, in an orderly manner, a new relationship with our European neighbours based on trade and cooperation," he is set to say.
Once on the dark-sand beach, children can explore smugglers' caves, poke around rock pools and leap into the remaining tidal pool (once there were three).
Maal is unstoppable, filling the space with his voice and his presence, changing costumes, dancing, leaping, yet still remaining the perfect host, a genuine leader.
Rebel comedy's Madison to Sahl's Jefferson would have to be Lenny Bruce, who leaped over any remaining lines of taste and turned comedy into a series of unexpurgated assaults on the status quo, both public and private.
