Word: feets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Houdini released himself thousands of times from every known physical restraint, often purposely putting his life in danger to dramatize the escapes. He was certainly no slouch: why escapes from a strait jacket standing upright when you can do it hanging by your ankles from a flagpole, 100 feet above a New York street, with thousands watching? Why get out of complicated shackles and leg irons on terra firma, when you can make it more difficult by first jumping off a bridge into a river below? Houdini did his utmost to excite and titillate the public: he did dozens...
...Fable's most difficult escapes, though, is the "underwater box." Fable is handcuffed and then locked inside a heavy wood box, which is weighted down with 500 Ibs. of steel and tied shut with 50 feet of chain. A crane then lowers the box in to water, where he makes his escape. Once, in Atlantic City, the feat became even more dangerous than usual, when a wave flipped the box as it was being lowered, sending steel weights crashing around Fable and turning him upside down. "That was as much danger as I ever want to be in," he says...
When McCloskey finally scrambled to his feet, O'Neill snapped that it was too late; the bill had already passed. "I was on my feet," protested McCloskey. "The chair will not stand for that," O'Neill thundered, adding that he had "looked in [McCloskey's] direction ... expecting someone would rise and no member rose." Although the bill had already passed, McCloskey was allowed by unanimous consent to make a belated request for a roll call; when the tally was complete, the measure had failed...
...thickets of their pieces, but Rostropovich negotiates them with cheerful ease. "I don't even know why my hands do certain things sometimes," he says. "They just grab for the notes." His dynamic range, from the greatest fortissimo down the line to a pianissimo that comes on little cat feet, is nothing short of phenomenal. "You played like a god!" swooned a woman one night in New York. "Yes," replied Slava with a twinkle and a verbal pinch on the cheek, "but like a god with...
...dawn broke over the white-pillared U.S. Supreme Court one day last week, more than 100 spectators were already clustered on the granite steps, huddled in bed rolls or stamping their feet to ward off the autumn chill. By midmorning the crowd had doubled and doubled again, stretching across the court plaza all the way to First Street. Photographers maneuvered to capture celebrities as they arrived, including Senators Robert Griffin and Thomas Eagleton, and Mrs. Earl Warren, widow of the Chief Justice who presided over the historic school desegregation decision of 1954. As the crowds pressed forward, young demonstrators waved...