Word: stunt
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...climbing and sailing where they are not wanted. Dorry would have campaign medals if Greenpeace gave medals. She was jailed in 1992 for a demonstration in which she and 75 townspeople scaled a fence at a hazardous-waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio. And she helped plan the 1994 stunt in which Greenpeacers climbed the side of the Time & Life Building in New York City and hung a banner from the 20th floor decrying the use of chlorine in the making of paper for this magazine, among others...
There are some who are bothered that what started out as a publicity stunt--Tuttle ran in part to promote the movie, which will air nationally on PBS next month--has subverted the electoral process. Some think Tuttle may eventually drop out. (Every time he says he'll stay in the race, Tuttle looks at O'Brien much as a child would at a stage mother). No one expects Tuttle to beat the popular Leahy, who is most worried about justifying his $500,000 war chest against Tuttle's pledge to spend just $251, one for each Vermont town...
...provides a nice contrast to the car chases that are another Frankenheimer specialty (Remember Grand Prix?). He loves sending his vehicles screeching through narrow European streets, and he apparently loves trying to top himself, because there are three such sequences here. They are done the old-fashioned way, by stunt drivers, which gives these thrill sequences an immediacy, a nervy elan that special-effects techies can't quite generate on a computer screen. They also assert the only message this film wants to convey, which is that in action movies it's not what you say but how smashingly...
...absolute nonsense," said Professor George Annas of the Boston University School of Public Health. Annas was one of the seven other panel members who took part in the cloning discussions. "I don't think we can take [Seed's comments] seriously. It's just a publicity stunt...
Think? Well, all right, maybe that's too strong a term. But the action in this movie, most of which takes the form of spectacular stunt work performed by real, as opposed to digitized, people (note especially the spectacular Roman riding gag), is motivated by simple, powerful emotions of an old-fashioned and rather melodramatic nature, which the characters are not shy about expressing. We're talking high romance, pure ideals, dashing heroism here--all the stuff that used to animate our big boyish movies...