Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twice shown on a hospital cot, reaching out to a wide, white wall that becomes the face of the nurse, as if he were a fantasy of her unborn child. Time and again, Bergman appears to have his film improperly spliced, showing blinding flashes of lights and numbers. The stunt reminds his viewers that the work is simply artifice, a game of poses and disguises...
Only on Christmas day, when the prisons were serving a holiday banquet, was there a pause in the exodus. One escapee even re-enacted a stunt from the Peter Sellers movie Two Way Stretch: he rode to freedom secreted in side a prison garbage truck, all the while desperately ducking the automatic arm that crushes the refuse. Lest would-be escapees lack so antic an imagination, the Mountbatten committee provided a few suggestions of its own. As it out lined weak points in the prison security system, it theorized about a whole range of potential escapes - from prisoners scooped...
...himself in a deep political hole as a result of the conference, which grew out of proposals from the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and South Viet Nam. No sooner was the meeting announced than it came under a withering crossfire of criticism. Moscow Radio dismissed it as "a propaganda stunt," the G.O.P. as a political gimmick. In one of his less becoming sneers, Senator William Fulbright dubbed it a meaningless palaver among "a cozy little group of our boys...
Mountain climbers have scaled its sides, acrobats have walked up on their hands, stunt pilots have flown between its legs, and an adventurous baker once teetered all the way up the 363 steps to the first platform on a pair of stilts. Even more spectacularly the descent has been at tempted by bicycle, parachute and, in 1911, by a tailor who rigged himself out in a batwing cape and jumped off to see if he could fly (he couldn...
Widow and widower fall in love, in a way, although flashback memories of the dead stunt man keep popping up when Anouk and Jean-Louis go to bed for the first time. Will she forget her old love for the sake of the new? Trying to answer the question, Director Claude Lelouch, 28, composes some stylish scenes and tosses in enough cinematic tricks borrowed from older New Wave directors-abrupt switches from black-and-white to color, for example-to have won this year's Cannes Festival Grand Prix. But his does-she-or-doesn't-she story...