Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become the primary source of tension between the two countries. Just before Halloween the Chinese mounted a show of force around the embassy, evidently fearing that masked party guests were going to smuggle Fang out in a coffin. Diplomats had joked openly for months about pulling such a stunt. The Chinese evidently took them at their word -- monitored, no doubt, over tapped phone lines...
...trips on colleagues until they provided $800 million for starving Africans during the sub-Saharan famine in 1985 did not ease Leland's entry into the insider's club. When he spent a night with Washington's homeless in the winter of 1987, it was criticized as a publicity stunt...
...within a few hours after the money was taken. Says the son: "I was in college at the time and did not hear about it until the crisis was over. The case was never solved, and some people have suggested that my father staged the episode as a publicity stunt. My father may be a little weird, but he's not a criminal." More recently, the bank has been at the center of a political controversy: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley accepted $18,000 as a consultant last year, then returned the pay after critics suggested it had been...
Conscience may be inbred, but to grow it needs cultivation. The societal messages that make it through the din of inner-city rap 'n' roll conspire to stunt that growth. They all but drown out those voices trying to nurture a sense of responsibility, the foundation of moral character...
...prerecorded hot lines, everything from fresh sports scores to stale Henny Youngman jokes are now no farther away than the buttons on your Touch-Tone phone. The latest offering: daily messages from Samantha Fox, Bobby Brown and other recording stars. Initially dismissed by the music industry as an offbeat stunt, the gambit may become rock 'n' roll's hottest promotional device since the video...