Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...style with the Book of Job. And maybe Harvard students are among the least likely persons on the planet to accept explanations involving deities of any sort. Yet RSI remains extremely disquieting, not only because it affects so many of us, but because it seems specifically designed to stunt our success. Of course, afflictions appropriate for Harvard students could have come in many forms. Harvard might have been plagued by Discussion Muteness Syndrome, in which long periods of babbling without frequent breaks would leave seminar jocks with stunted tongues, prevented from speaking in sentences more than a few words long...
...what of Henri Paul, the chauffeur so loaded with alcohol that his vision may have been blurred as he smashed into the Alma tunnel's 13th pillar? Sancton and MacLeod reveal Paul's history of daredevil stunts in passenger planes, and how his final stunt was to drink whiskey-strength aperitifs -- right under the noses of Dodi Fayed's bodyguards. Another irony: Mohammed Al-Fayed, in his first post-crash interview, tells Sancton and MacLeod how he begged Dodi not to go from the rear of the hotel with a substitute driver. Dodi didn't heed Mohammed's advice...
...announcement that the world's most famous astronaut would return to space next October, 36 years after becoming the first American to orbit the earth, was greeted with pleasure, amazement and some skepticism. Critics argued that the flight was merely a public relations stunt; NASA insisted it was motivated by good, hard science. Glenn, while officially echoing NASA, added a reason of his own: "I see this," he said, "as another adventure into the unknown...
...hard-core sex in inspired locations like California's Highway 15. The IEG tape enhances these moments with slow-motion replays and a pornish sound track. At least a few viewers, including Seth Warshasky, the head of IEG, think the Lees staged the whole thing. "It's a publicity stunt," he says. "The tape looks like it was produced to be shown." Perhaps there's no such thing as overexposure...
Lacking answers, the summit wound down with a panel of actual children--a cute if predictable stunt. Onstage with their parents and teachers before a ballroom full of strange, faceless adults, the kids readily assured us that they do all they can to avoid naughty material on the Net. They were perhaps a bit more credible when talking about the genuine fun you can have online--a notion that may have escaped many of their listeners. The president of a Website company bet that if I asked summit participants what they used the Internet for, most would say nothing...