Word: eight-day
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...this one became a hit by breaking too many rules. No-star indie films usually make money with charm and sentiment; Blair Witch has neither. So the mass audience will accept something strident, elliptical, confrontational--what next? The movie was shot with its actors' being put through an eight-day survival game. They shot the film and made up the dialogue while the directors lurked out of sight and played sneaky tricks on them. Don't let James Cameron hear about this...
...other impression is of a faint haze ofzaniness that hung over the Crimson building at 14Plympton St. I remember an eight-day bicycle racestaged when Crimson editors lugged bikes into thebig news room and made a raceway by pushing allthe desks together in a tight rectangle. Writersworked imperviously, tossing copy to the desk inthe intervals between riders...
Then there's the one about Denver architect William Elkjer, 57, who always wanted to launch himself on an adventure he would remember forever. In April, he and his wife Candy took an eight-day, professionally led dogsled trip across 180 miles of Alaska. Elkjer cashed in all of his Diners Club points--500,000 of them--to take the plunge. "I had been saving these points for years for something special," Elkjer says. "This was really an event of a lifetime...
...Tiananmen Square, Tibet and Taiwan, not to mention the Communist Party. That's precisely why China's President Jiang Zemin is so eager to come here. He may have consolidated power internally, but he desperately wants to affirm his nation's legitimacy abroad. So Jiang's aim during his eight-day state visit, the first since China's bloody suppression of the democracy movement in 1989, is nothing less than to change the minds of Americans about what is going on in China and why they should care about...
...establishing Jiang's itinerary, intentionally giving it an aura of Americana to showcase the Communist leader in places reminiscent of American patriotism. The Chinese also demanded that the United States accord Jiang the highest state and military honors, as a state visitor of the top rank. * Jiang's eight-day trip began at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, last Sunday and will, when it ends next Sunday, have taken him on a tour of seven cities: Honolulu, Williamsburg, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Los Angeles...