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...among my friends, perhaps because most of them have not jumped, or possibly because it just confirms for them how crazy I must be. Of my five minutes on camera, four minutes and 30 seconds show the instructors hamming it up while I hesitated, a death grip on the railing. Only the final 30 seconds show me leaping, falling and then bouncing around on a big rubber band. At least my swan dive looked pretty good...
Suharto's kinglike grip on power mesmerizes all his subjects, and so far no one has dared to openly challenge him. But as he nervously surrounds himself with family and cronies, the living is getting dangerous once again...
Mann shows us both the long-term effect of these forces upon the movies--the infamous Hays morality code, which constrained the movies to representing a rigidly defined value system whose iron grip did not begin to loosen until the 1960s and '70s--and the very personal impact upon the actors in Hollywood. The studios declared that being gay was no longer okay in Hollywood, thereby avoiding the harsh criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and other religious groups, and providing spin control on the gossip newspapers that were rapidly taking on an alarming independence. Actors who were rumored...
...Dionne has a very good grip on how things work at this school--how to get through a lot of the red tape," said Jason D. Williamson '98, current BSA president. But, he noted, the entire candidate pool was "pretty impressive...
Look left, look right, and then look left again. That mantra for pedestrian survival might well describe France?s recent political fortunes -- in yesterday?s regional elections, the Socialists further strengthened the grip on power they improbably won last summer, with the only other winner being the far-right National Front...