Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lightning impulses of rock videos, inured to slaughter by campy slasher films, kids have become scarily sophisticated; they are connoisseurs of carnage. They know that in a blood ballet like Total Recall everybody gets killed but nobody gets hurt -- because the characters aren't human beings but ciphers, cyborgs, stunt people and stunted characters, no more real than the creatures vaporized in Nintendo games...
...presumed dead, the bold young adventurer was last seen in the 1984 megahit Beverly Hills Cop. Though a figure billed as "Eddie Murphy" has been spotted flitting through the underbrush of a variety of dismal movies since then, it seems likely that he is being played by a stunt double. Or possibly a stunted double...
...solution is not to stunt such interest. It should be to build or find the needed space. In the short-term, Harvard should decrease the cost to student groups of performing in Harvard-affiliated properties, and administrators should stop playing favorites for the little space available...
LOOK at Donald Trump, the epitome of creativity, hard work, brains and "good ole American guts." He's so generous he's lent his name to so many places and things like the Trump Tower. Could the Japanese have engineered as great a publicity stunt as Marla Maples...
ORTEGA'S meeting with Chamorro was a good public relations stunt, an ostensible sign of national reconciliation. But it could not obscure the Sandinistas' prior contempt for the opposition and reluctance to listen to popular sentiment...