Word: stunting
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...record for most consecutive games at second base (798), no mention was made of his abduction by aliens. It happened in 1959, when a helicopter filled with Martians landed at Chicago's Comiskey Park and captured both Fox and his equally diminutive double-play partner, Luis Aparicio. The stunt was dreamed up by White Sox owner Bill Veeck, who eight years earlier had shocked baseball by sending 3-ft. 7-in. Eddie Gaedel to the plate for the St. Louis Browns. In fact, Gaedel was one of the four Martians (all of them very little people) who tried to enlist...
...swimming earlier this year. Castellano explained that "there's not much you can do, when you're out there in practice and getting splashed all the time." It is telling that Governor William F. Weld '68 was rushed to a hospital after jumping into the river for a publicity stunt to prove its cleanliness last summer. If the Governor's health is not enough to speed up change, maybe the leverage of the crews and of the backers of the Head of the Charles can do it. They should speak out actively against the dangerous river waters. As there...
...interests are so broad and there are so many fields I would love to explore, but, unfortunately, Harvard does not have a major/minor system. By opting to supposedly graduate in three years, I might stunt my growth. Harvard does not seem concerned about that. The system does not fret about developmentally stunted students. In this way, we are antithetical to Brown which encourages its student body to indulge in its pangs to learn about road-less-traveled type subjects. Columbia is also very different; the student body spends the first two years learning a highly structured Core and only later...
...Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen -- in the second longest film released by a major studio (after ?Cleopatra?). To his credit, the actor-director-adapter approached this job not as a solemn duty or an egotistical stunt, but in the sensible belief that the greatest work in dramatic literature damn well deserved to be filmed in full. Next to this, all other movie versions, from Laurence Olivier's to Mel Gibson's, seem like samplings, a Reduced Shakespeare Company run-through of Hamlet's greatest hits...
...there's a volatile, tender symbiosis in the tandem of Flynt (Woody Harrelson) and his bisexual stripper drug-addict wife Althea (Courtney Love). They goad, torture and love each other, to the limit. Casting the Lady Cobain was not merely an art-imitates-death stunt; she's a real actress, rangy and sympathetic, with an instinct for just the right dose of excess. Love and Harrelson make The People vs. Larry Flynt a case well worth studying. --By Richard Corliss...