Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow, accompanied by an escort of journalistic cautions. Life in Moscow is a postgraduate course in skepticism for correspondents. When Gorbachev telephoned Sakharov in December to free him from nearly seven years of internal exile in Gorky, most of the initial speculation saw it as primarily a propaganda stunt for foreign consumption. The press corps in Moscow reminded everybody that the Gulags are still full and dissidents who are Soviet Jews have a hard time emigrating. Then came the op-ed page experts, asserting that change in the Evil Empire is only a mirage and warning against gullibility...
...afraid that this project is turning into a publicity stunt, and I don't like it," City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci said, reiterating comments made by councilors Francis H. Duehay '55 and William H. Walsh. However, both Duehay and Walsh said they personally supported the visit...
...Peter Timmer '63, then a sophomore, and several friends decided to give the gun a new home in the main dining hall, Timmer said. "We were quite proud of ourselves," Timmer said. "The thing must have weighed over half a ton." Timmer discourages other freshmen from attempting the same stunt, suggesting that, "there must be better pranks...
...well as I had hoped. First, my ex-campaign manager slashed my tires. Second, Mike Dukakis pulled the exact same stunt the same day, and so the press ignored me. By that time public interest in my campaign was at such a low point that I called a press conference to announce my withdrawal...
...booms through the P.A. system, then--Riiiip!--Frau von Kessel (Elizabeth Franz) and her servant tear the scrim and stick their torsos through it. It's supposed to look clever and mysterious, these two figures popping out of the waving whiteness, but it's just a cheap and cosmetic stunt...