Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Educators urging students to hit the books received a horrible setback. During a Chicago Bulls home game, spectator Don Calhoun, an Indiana salesman, was randomly chosen to try a wildly improbable promotional stunt: sink a basket from the opposite foul line, 75 ft. away. Amazingly, Calhoun swished the shot and grabbed the prize: $1 million...
...movie; I was caught up in it." The main street of Concrete, Washington, looks, after a lot of work by set builders, exactly as it did in the '50s. Tobias thinks the actors were marvelous, particularly Leonardo DiCaprio as Toby in a car-stealing scene, a dumb adolescent stunt that happened just the way it was filmed...
...rationale for such a choice is clear. Drury is, without question, in the prime of his hockey career. More time spent in college or the Olympics could either stunt his athletic development or result in a career-threatening injury. There is precedent for such a choice as well. Two years ago, then-senior Mike Vukonich '91 left Harvard in April to play for the Los Angeles Kings. Vukonich managed to complete all the requirements for his courses, however, and received his degree on time...
...President warned that cutting deeper still might stunt the economic recovery. Nonetheless, he quickly accepted the additional reductions voted by the budget committees. He did not have much choice. His own preaching, and the earlier exhortations of Paul Tsongas and Ross Perot, has made deficit cutting the rage; legislators report that on their visits back home they find their constituents focusing on the deficit as Topic A. That mood has allowed conservative Democrats to drive the debate. The White House must hold on to their votes if any version of the President's economic plan is to pass over what...
...sexual revelation is a dramatic stunt: Agatha Christie rewritten by Quentin Crisp. But the twist is also brilliant because it makes the relationship riper, the characters deeper. Flying in the face of every convention, the love story soars. Jordan calls his movie "a love story without sex, beyond sex. You think that love is the same thing as sex -- and it's not, is it?" Because they never do have sex, the lovers can hold on to their ideal images of each other as savior and beautiful woman. "It's my little joke about a marriage," Jordan says. "The ideal...