Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoped to let the poetry of the speech resonate before the hard prose of the 1987 budget proposals hit Capitol Hill, but the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger forced a delay. "We planned to ride the thing for a week," said Director of Communications Pat Buchanan. Even a stunt by bureaucrats in the Office of Management and Budget did little to soften the discord that came on Wednesday...
...solid premise for a light comedy. Similarly, the tension in the film between God as reasonable and Reason as god might have been engaging, like the crunch of cold modern science and warm timelessly-fashioned love. And the acting of Peter O'Toole, who worked similar magic in The Stunt Man, should have been able to sustain the tension between the comic and philosophical elements in the character of the tastefully crazed academic...
...Mount McGregor drama, terminal and succinct, there was a sleazy commercial dimension that savored of the scandals of his White House years. The owners of the resort at Mount McGregor had actually attracted Grant to come and die in comfort there, a sort of publicity stunt. Grant went along with it. But as he enacted that odd humiliation, he was, in the privacy of his mind and on his lined note pad, composing his memoirs, one of the strongest and purest documents of American public life...
...from Barrington, R.I., is the seventh known person to go over the falls and survive. Trotter, who carried a two-way radio and two oxygen tanks in the event he ran into trouble at the bottom of the falls, says he took the plunge "to get recognition as a stunt man." As far as the Canadian authorities are concerned, he has achieved that goal. He is scheduled to appear this week before an Ontario court, where he can be fined as much as $500 for performing an illegal stunt...
...film Chevy Chase would make. It comes complete with Jack Chester (Candy) as the anxiety ridden father, and his caricature family, all of whom are off to Florida for a month-long stay in a summer beach house. One enters the theater hoping that Candy can pull the stunt off better than Chase ever did, but leaves with the feeling that this movie would have been better with Candy cast as one of the sidekicks...