Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel industry does not yet realize.. . . that its decisions on prices must be in the public interest as well as its private interest." A top Republican policymaker in Congress, who had been neck-deep in the fight to take and keep controls off business, cried: "A cynical stunt ... a damned fool thing to do." Senator Robert A. Taft swiftly announced that "two or three typical steel leaders " would be called on the carpet of Congress' Joint Economic Committee this week to explain their action...
...While his wife and a motion-picture cameraman watched, Hollywood Stunt Man Alfred ("Dusty") Rhodes jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge with three small parachutes attached to his back. He plummeted down 256 feet, disappeared in a burst of foam, surfaced, and bobbed quietly off on the tide-dead...
...Army and Military Government, Koerner had painted ruins and ruined people. Now, back in Brooklyn, he concerned himself with a less apparent wasteland. Among the best of Koerner's new pictures was Subway, a familiar scene made into a nightmare of sharp realism. Koerner used one anti-realistic stunt: he vastly enlarged the head of the desperate man in the rear of the car (see cut). "That man wants to get out," Koerner says. "People would think he was crazy. But what about the woman across the aisle, who needs to be looked at and yet hates...
...Gilded Hearse is the story of one day in the life of Publicity Man Eliot. It happens to be the day in 1938 that the Munich Pact was signed, but the stunt of employing momentous events as a backdrop for Eliot's neurotic strivings for cheap success never comes off. To bring it off requires more than making a character tune in on the depressing broadcasts of that day every few pages and glibly crediting the hero with a "premonition of shapeless disaster...
...shine out, but more often the reader is too tangled up in meandering and philosophizing to grasp the insights that always seem to lie just below the surface of comprehension. Lockridge's peculiar arrangement of incidents is of little help. For some reason, he has invented an annoying little stunt of running together the last sentence of an episode in 1892 with the first few words in a flashback sequence. Perhaps this ties the two together in the reader's mind, but the device becomes irritatingly cute after the first dozen or so uses. More bothersome is his scheme...