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Once known only to a handful of sky divers, mountain climbers and other daredevils, bungee jumping -- the origin of the name is unknown -- has spawned dozens of clubs in recent months. One of the first, Bungee Adventures in California, has already sent 8,000 thrill seekers over the edge. Although there have been no fatalities reported in the U.S., two French jumpers fell to their deaths last year when their cords severed, and a third died after colliding with a tower...
...charge a commission when you initiate the short (selling shares of a stock you don't yet own) and another when you "cover" (buying them back), just as he would if you bought and sold a stock normally. But your broker's real thrill will be the interest he earns on the proceeds of your sale. Because even though you didn't own the shares you sold (your broker borrowed them for you from another customer), you really did sell them, and your broker really did receive cash. By rights, you should earn interest on that cash. But unless...
...Henry (played with hollow-eyed precision by Michael Rooker), murder is a vocation. He is compelled to do it and does it well, but the job gives him little pleasure. Only his friend Otis (Tom Towles) feels the thrill of the kill. Otis is the sickest person in the movie; he takes to torture like a born-again sadist. Only his sweet sister Becky (Tracy Arnold) has much hope of touching poor Henry. She will be his best hope or his last victim...
Director Kathryn Bigelow is Hollywood's suavest young stylist. Trained as a painter, she brings glamour, precision and thrill to every image. This film, bound as it is by action-movie conventions, hasn't the originality of her stunning horror drama Near Dark, and toward the end Blue Steel spins goofily off track. But it has a handsome time getting there, propelled by Curtis' sensible sensuality and Silver's bravura creepiness. These two help dramatize the danger any woman can find in the desperate intimacy of a big city. By the climax, Megan has to be thinking of Eugene...
...brass-button tunic, and sported a needle-pointed waxed mustache. He carried a bottle of Carbona cleaner with him to hold grease spots on his rakish costume to a minimum. You got to see him at Sioux City, Iowa, on a scorched tarmac in the drought years, and the thrill lasted the whole dismal summer. Turner brought along his pet lion cub Gilmore, which draped its paws over the side of the cockpit as Turner cut the switch and saluted. In a back room at the Garber Facility, Gilmore, long ago a grown lion, proudly presides, beautifully stuffed and stored...