Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Diana's latest move an act of despair or a new stunt...
...tasteless, occasionally racist lampoons. It's he, not Limbaugh, who uses outrageous put- downs and salty language, right? Such as calling a former U.S. Senator "Alan ('the Cadaver') Cranston" and Perot "a hand grenade with a bad haircut." It's Stern, surely, who used to do an on-air stunt with vacuum- cleaner sound effects dubbed "caller abortions," who chatted with a female caller about giving him "a throat massage" with her tongue, whose current newsletter article on health-care reform is headlined BEND OVER, AMERICA, and who just last week on the radio delivered a parody ad for mail...
...prove grace under pressure by lying down in the middle of a busy highway flipping through a magazine as the trucks swerve to avoid him. He goes unscathed. Shingledecker did not seem especially moved by the film, his girlfriend reports. But the next weekend, he tried the same stunt himself on the double yellow line in the middle of Pennsylvania Route 62 -- and was hit by a pickup truck...
That gesture may make little difference in Venango County, where two more youths attempted the roadway stunt on Wednesday -- one a fourth-grader, the other a first-grader. And it will complicate things for Patricia Shingledecker. She vows to go and see the movie, including the highway scene. "I want to see what prompted them," she says. "Everyone says Michael and I were a lot alike. If I see it, I think I could understand better." If the movie does enlighten her, then she will have achieved an answer that so far seems to elude the nation...
Lecturer on Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyJames E. Davis, who teaches Chem 5, said he firstthought the streak was a publicity stunt, perhapsfor a Harvard a capella group...