Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...singers, dressed in top hats and tuxedos, invaded three congressional office buildings Wednesday morning, armed with kazoos and cymbal-playing mechanical monkeys. Only Bonzo was missing. Some Congressmen, however, were not amused. Los Angeles Democrat Edward Roybal, 65, took to the House floor that afternoon to denounce the stunt. Said he: "We are dealing with serious economic issues, and some of our loyal opposition seems to think it is time to send in the clowns...
Rajiv, a Boeing 737 pilot for Indian Airlines until last month, understates his potential influence. Since Sanjay, then 33, died in the crash of a stunt plane, Rajiv has been, as he puts it, "helping Mummy" as an unofficial assistant. As the closest of all advisers to Indira, he could easily follow Sanjay's path to become the second most influential person in India...
...women taking back the night and happy to see people marching for justice in El Salvador, decided to interview State Rep. Marie Howe, an Irish patriot recently returned from a trip to Ulster. The paper asked her, among other things. "Wasn't the trip itself mainly a publicity stunt?" "Did you present yourself primarily as a Massachusetts legislator?" "It's clear you support the IRA, but do you think their terrorist activities are justified...
Stanford Against Conscription, a student group opposing draft registration, sent the notices as a publicity stunt, but many students said they thought the letters--which came in official envelopes and used three typefaces on letterhead stationery--were real...
THIS PLOT PROVIDES the framework for the usual action--Popeye slugging his way through run-ins with Bluto and other assorted ruffians. The fight scenes underscore the limitations of the premise. Clever camera and stunt work not-withstanding, human beings simply cannot contort themselves the way cartoon figures can. Robin Williams can only cock his wrist a couple of times for the famous twister punch. As a result, the slapstick gains in immediacy but loses the necessary hyperbole...