Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earth does not withhold many secrets any more. Everyone who did not, for one reason or another, travel to China last year is sure to go this year. A tour bus runs down nearly every street in the global village. When does travel degenerate into snobbism or a stunt? Lars-Eric Lindblad, impresario of the edifyingly exotic, takes the vacationing bartender where Darwin most remotely went...
...WILLS' anti-myth; it goes something like this John F. Kennedy was basically a power-hungry adolescent, recklessly acting out James Bond style fantasies in the White House. The Bay of Pigs invasion was an ill-planned, impossibly romantic stunt, Kennedy's own baby rather than an Eisenhower inheritance. The Cuban missile crisis was a false "triumph"--manufactured by Kennedy in the first place, it nearly led to nuclear war as Kennedy tried to live up to his rhetoric and humiliate Khruschev. Whether it was his obsessive pursuit of women--which, one might say, made Kennedy's administration as illustrious...
EXPECTING. Lindsay Wagner, 32, TV actress (The Bionic Woman), and Henry Kingi, 37, stunt man on The Dukes of Hazzard: their first child...
Freshman generally took notice of the North House Crew, Vivian Ho '85 said they were ruining her breakfast, but most other freshmen found the stunt humorous...
...match, now in its fifth day, has unfolded on an elegant board in the display window of Leavitt and Peirce, a Mass. Ave. tobacco store, without the physical presence of either combatant. Leavitt and Peirce sponsored the event as a publicity stunt and receives a daily move by telephone from Yale freshman Michael J. Wilder and Harvard graduate student Duane Champagne...