Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wont to shed a tear in public now and then--it's also true that the council presidency isn't quite as big a deal as the presidency of the United States. Hanselman's unabashed display of vulnerability, I thought, was nothing but a cheap publicity stunt...
...announced in Creole that he would break the curse. Mumbling incantations, the officer anointed each child's forehead with a smear of the glowing green liquid. After declaring "the spell has been lifted," he turned to the stunned werewolves and promised that if they ever pulled such a stunt again, he would put a spell on them: his magic was much more powerful than theirs...
...would presume to educate them. It's humanism at its most Panglossian. But Michael Apted, who has directed vigorous woodland women before (Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter, Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist), focuses on the weird wonder of Foster. Of course her portrayal is a stunt; of course the viewer is aware of the distance between the actress and her role. Yet she undercuts cliche with a fearless, fierce, beautifully attuned performance...
...those of us who have some experience navigating the Information Superhighway--otherwise known as cyberspace or whatever other techno-sounding media moniker you like--this little stunt doesn't sound all that unusual. With thousands of newsgroups (electronic, public bulletin boards) covering every topic from alt.society anarchy to alt.sex.fetish, a suicide note sounds pretty uncreative...
HERE'S A BRILLIANT, BROODING novel, a literary work of the first class, built around a confounding falsification by the author that reduces the entire book to the level of a clever and nearly meaningless stunt. Find an explanation...