Word: daredeviling
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...Whether I could keep my eyes open watching that thing blast off, knowing that Jeff is inside of it. I don't really know," Elizabeth Hoffman adds, recalling that "he never seemed like a real daredevil type" and was "basically very quiet and scholarly" as a youngster...
DIED. Henry Tindall ("Dick") master pilot and aviation daredevil who made the first round-trip Atlantic flight in 1936 and who, during 41 years of flying, mostly for Eastern Airlines, logged nearly 50,000 hours, a feat unlikely to be matched by today's more regulated commercial pilots; of pneumonia; in Lake Elsinore, Calif...
...just his call for massive weekly trivia quizzes in Harvard Yard" that make T. Logan Evans 14 remind us of this film character, Handsome, preppy, unmistakable, Evans also similarly entertains and captivates. He has taken an otherwise unremarkable election and turned it into a personal daredevil show...
DIED. Dean Chenoweth, 44, daredevil boat racer and four-time national hydroplane champion; of head, neck and chest injuries when a gust of wind flipped his boat while it was traveling at 175 m.p.h. during a qualifying run for the annual Columbia Cup race; on the Columbia River near Pasco, Wash. Returning several times from retirement, the "Comeback Kid" had miraculously survived one crash after another. Eventually he became one of only seven competitors who lived long enough to win more than a dozen races...
...story so far: daredevil film maker (Apocalypse Now, the Godfather films) and presumptive bankrupt Francis Ford Coppola had just fired himself out of a cannon wearing a fine black beard and a jaunty smile but perhaps (there was a lot of public relations smoke) no leotard. Would he land in a bed of rose petals thrown by critics enraptured by his new film One from the Heart? Would his feud with Paramount Pictures, which had rescued his Zoetrope Studios from financial disaster a year ago, bring down ruin on his head? Or would he succeed in his cheeky gamble...