Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Woman is a pictorially stunning, emotionally stumbling film about a woman mesmerized by the memory of her late husband, a jaunty movie stunt man who was killed while dancing through a battlefield set where a prop man's shell misfired. One Sunday at the Deauville school where their young children board, the widow (Anouk Aimée) meets a handsome widower (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a racing driver whose wife impulsively committed suicide, thinking that he had been killed in a crash at Le Mans...
...stand-in, poor kid, for someone who had cut his leg, managed to start in the middle of the river without any skis. According to announcer, it took incredible strength and split-second e.g. To get up that way, he had to stick his whole head of water, Some stunt...
...batting .500. Three for Six." With a flair for gaudy promotion, he has equipped his golden-tailed jets with golden toilet seats. His public-relations men once hired two dozen dwarfs, dressed them in golden space suits and sent them romping through hotel lobbies in a promotion stunt; another time, the p.r. men tried to "kidnap" a Chicago White Sox second baseman from a helicopter...
India's greatest fakir, Laxman Sandra Rao, 77, demonstrated his powers first by taking a walk on hot coals. Then came time for the stunt that the crowd of 1,000 had paid up to $100 apiece to witness: a stroll across the water in a specially constructed tank in Bombay. While movie cameras whirred, Rao stepped off the edge-and sank like a stone to the bottom. The spectators felt they'd been soaked themselves. Rao retreated to a downtown office building, where he began returning rupees to all the rubes who came forward...
...technique is based on Ivan Pavlov's famed conditional-reflex experiment, in which a dog was trained to salivate at the sound of a bell. But for June, the conditioning was the dog-bell routine in reverse. Called "aversion therapy," it was the same stunt researchers use to train laboratory rats...