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...award from the Friars Club as Entertainer of the Year. Weren't her naughty-lady movie takeoffs risqué? "Not compared with those dirty soap operas. We're G-rated compared to daytime TV." Does she have a second career in mind? "I should say a stunt woman in stag movies. But I'd really like to be a schoolteacher for kids, six to eight. They haven't heard all my jokes...
...other key-command posts will also be held by women; all of the secondary positions will be filled by men. This strange odyssey, scheduled to begin in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and wind up in Yucatan, Mexico, has all of the earmarks of a frivolous publicity stunt. In fact, it is a serious experiment in role reversal and cultural conflict conceived by Santiago Genoves, a Mexican anthropologist who went along on Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra expeditions...
...contest has attracted both praise and criticism. Elliott said yesterday she liked the "wide-open approach" while Perla Hewes, Radcliffe tennis and squash instructor and a semi-finalist, said she believed "The Miss America Pageant" would be a more appropriate title. Hewes described the contest as a publicity stunt...
...Hasty Pudding Club advertised yesterday's events, which included a parade from the Business school, in a fake Crimson extra distributed Monday night and Tuesday morning. The annual award, begun 23 years ago, is a publicity stunt for the theatrical club's annual musical production...
...been 16 centuries since the Roman Emperor Constantine outlawed crucifixions, but the practice has been preserved in some parts of the world, not as a punishment but as a macabre stunt or commemorative rite. The latest to undergo the ordeal of the cross is a French husband-and-wife team of yoga practitioners in the Dominican Republic, who offered themselves up in the cause of world peace and to demonstrate the "power of mind over matter." French-born Mystic Patricio Tamao, 33, who is the founder of his own philosophy, Tamaoism, was the first on the cross, which...