Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medical and environmental studies have made it clear that suicide may well be an attractive alternative to "living" through a nuclear exchange. And yet something threatened to choke sympathy off at the throat. Were the Brown students 1980s zoot-suiters who had spoiled a serious issue with a publicity stunt, muddying the earnest reputation of Ivy League students? It is difficult not to ask the question...
...expectant hush. Carr swears that Bombeck had known nothing about the cherries stunt. Unfazed, however, she stepped to the microphone and said, "Well, I hate to think what would be going on in here if we were promoting my last book...
...because he got into a fight with the son of a judge in his Mexican village and, after the man drew a knife on him, shot him. Upon arriving in the U.S. he worked for the Union Pacific railroad; was shanghaied to Alaska and was a stunt man for D.W. Griffith...
...high-strung team armed only with cellos, violins, one harp and a collection of horns? No, not ABC's Wide Whirl of Junk Sports. Real answer: the 1984 Houston Symphony Olympics, a cacophonous assembly of nine celebrity guest conductors who showed up last week for a publicity-stunt contest that generated more than 1,500 new subscribers for the symphony season. All conducted themselves admirably-and the suffering orchestra less well. In the end, local TV Journalist Marvin Zindler copped the gold with his rendition of the "William Tell"Overture. Former N.B. A. Star Calvin Murphy successfully shot...
Still, Hollywood seems to be growing more safety-conscious, if not more cautious. The Screen Actors Guild reports that anonymous calls alerting it to unsafe sets have increased dramatically since the Twilight Zone accident. And stunt people - traditionally loath to turn down stunts for fear of losing a job, or face - are becoming more wary. "Ten years ago, we wouldn't have taken a second look before we did a stunt," says Fred Waugh, president of Stunts Unlimited. "Today we take a second or even a third." Many Hollywood officials hope the industry will step up its self-policing...