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...that point, Crimson coach Johnny Lee was faced with another problem. He could ask Rick Kief to continue to work out in a rubber suit to lose the remaining pound needed to meet his normal 126-lb. limit or he could forfeit 126 and hope that the talented Kief could pull out a victory...
Most creative people are willing to take risks: Mead went to Somoa against the advice of her adviser (he thought it would be safer for a young woman to study the American Indian). They also take advantage of chance. Charles Goodyear discovered the process of vulcanizing rubber after carelessly dropping some raw rubber on a hot stove. Cage makes more intentional use of chance, employing an I Ching--an ancient Chinese book of charts used to determine oracles--to compose some of his music. "Most people who believe that I'm interested in chance don't realize that...
...movie lets us down when it could be scariest. The cache of corpses the monster has stored looks like a rubber limb collection from a joke shop. And, most heinous of all its crimes, it succumbs to the nouveau-horror trend of the 1970's; rather than leave us feeling all was in jest, or solved, as Hitchcock or Agatha Christie would, the movie ends with one of those "You thought it was safe, huh?" twists which is now a DePalma cliche. By then, we've started rooting for the monster...
...bravery. Though they were underfed, terrified and tempted at times to think the U.S. had forgotten them, none of the hostages seems truly to have given way psychologically to the captors. Instead, they fought back. At least three repeatedly tried to escape, though guards beat them with fists or rubber hoses when they were caught. Terri Tedford, 24, a secretary who was among the 13 freed in November 1979 after 16 days of captivity, told Iranian guards who held a gun to her head that they could go ahead and shoot. Michael Metrinko, 34, an embassy political officer...
...communications employee, was kept in solitary for 374 of the 444 days and frequently beaten. The reason: he tried several times to escape. Clair Barnes, who served in the communications section, said that other hostages who attempted to flee in the first days of the occupation were beaten with rubber hoses...