Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carden, as Huck, had to carry virtually the entire first act himself and the weight of that assignment showed. He has some fine turns, like his mimed escape from Pap's cabin, and he possesses a crazy abandon when it comes to attempting just about any kind of physical stunt. But. in an effort to pace himself for the long haul to the intermission, Carden's voice settled for the unexciting middle road. One just doesn't expect to discover such a subdued Huck Finn...
...highest-paid star in the 1920s; of cancer; in Hollywood. He usually played a feckless Mr. Average who triumphed over misfortune. "My character represented the white-collar middle class that felt frustrated but was always fighting to overcome its shortcomings," he once explained. Lloyd usually did his own stunt work, as in Safety Last (1923), in which he dangled from a clock high above the street; he was protected only by a wooden platform two floors below...
...dramatist, Samuel Beckett can be, and frequently is, a crashing bore. His world-renowned play Waiting tor Godot has been called a masterpiece so repeatedly that any revival of it seems to come gift-wrapped in its exalted reputation. In the canon of dramatic literature, Godot is an original stunt, a clever game, but no masterpiece. It has spoken to the inner spirit of an age that is antiheroic, narcissistic, self-pitying, and prone to believe that man's journey through life is a pointless shuttle from nothing to nowhere. When that view of man alters, the vogue...
...bleak picture indeed, and nothing short of restructuring the distribution of the tax dollar is likely to alleviate it. So grim is the prospect facing the cities that when the Superior Tea and Coffee Co. as a promotion stunt recently presented the City of Boston with $100 in reparation for the harbor pollution occasioned by the Boston Tea Party in 1773, Mayor Kevin White could only note with a trace of bitterness that, after nearly 200 years, Boston was still faced with taxation without representation...
Publicity Stunt? The would-be assassin, police soon learned, was not a Filipino but a Bolivian painter, Benjamin Mendoza y Amor, 35, who had lived in Argentina, the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines since leaving La Paz in 1962. He wanted to kill the Pope, he claimed, "to save the people from hypocrisy and superstition." In an interview the next day, Mendoza said that he had first formed the idea of assassinating the Pope "a long time ago," and would try again if he were free. Filipino acquaintances agreed that Mendoza was "a frustrated artist." A New York...