Chinese popular culture celebrates Africa as a place for derring-do.
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History suggests that kind of derring-do is fraught with danger, however.
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Heat was associated with activity, and thus with men and their derring-do.
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I would have loved to use DERRING-DO, but it just didn't work.
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That was just the precursor to Pageau's derring-do in the second overtime.
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Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice: Spielberg connects with the derring-do at the story's heart.
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And derring-do raids by special forces are largely fiction from the imagination of Hollywood.
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Many are in desolate wilderness areas that required Indiana Jones-style derring-do to locate.
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There's wisdom for the U.S. Navy in Herodotus' tale of prophecy and nautical derring-do.
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This is just a fun summer movie, with some great escapes and some derring-do.
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We're getting so removed from that that we hold on to these talismans of derring-do.
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But Jones's catch stood above the rest — as much for its context as his derring-do.
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These were stories of chivalry and derring-do and they are very popular in the Arab world.
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WRITING to his wife in May 1942, Evelyn Waugh recounted a true story of military derring-do.
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But for the rest of the world, the Dresden robbery is a faraway story of derring-do.
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He conquered waves thought to be unconquerable and performed feats of derring-do off Tahiti and Maui.
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The tale of intrigue and derring-do centres upon Sergeant David Budd (Richard Madden), a volatile war veteran.
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Is it one with the kind of cruciverbal derring-do that I expect to see from Mr. Agard?
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Get online and tweet your feats of moral derring-do in the cause of a more just society.
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Rsing star artist John Romita, Sr., a romance comic vet, gave the book derring-do and a soapy love triangle.
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The obstacles are too familiar and too pat, and no one is ever really a match for Sabrina's derring-do.
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Stubby's feats of derring-do would upstage the human interest even if those humans didn't look eerily round and smooth.
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Having gathered all the ingredients for derring-do, he forgets to turn up the heat, and the derring never does.
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It remains a breathtaking scene, combining everything audiences have come to love about Jackie Chan: athleticism, derring-do, an everyman's goodness.
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The billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who owns the company, has also come under pressure from the Kremlin because of its derring-do.
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Bandit's aims may be more earthbound, but his skill set represents a fusion of Luke's finesse and Han Solo's derring-do.
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The history of Japanese espionage is filled with derring-do, from sabotage in Tsarist Russia to stealing secrets in Latin America.
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There is a case of mistaken identity at a funeral and a bit of acrobatic derring-do on the Eiffel Tower.
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Professor Bentley's scientific exploits combined the derring-do of the great polar explorers with the painstaking work of measurement and calibration.
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For all their reliance on feats of derring-do, superhero films and TV shows are, creatively speaking, a risk-averse lot.
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What led to the financial derring-do and the eventual collapse was Mr. Greenspan's toxic combination of loose money and loose regulation.
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But to some officials in Newark, such initiatives — and the mayor's media-grabbing derring-do — had taken precedence over the practical details.
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Some believe the agencies to be overmighty, beguiling politicians with tales of derring-do and lobbying zealously for their cause in the media.
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I always like a bit of DERRING DO in my grid, and LET US PRAY makes a comeback after a 35-year hiatus.
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However, leaving aside the extent to which each book achieves its stated objective, the objectives themselves stand out for their derring-do and ambition.
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Since 1955, when it began, intelligence officers have filled its pages with analyses of old spy operations, book reviews, and tales of derring-do.
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If Taylor did not fit the mold of the dashing practitioner of derring-do, neither was she the image of the damsel in distress.
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To the extent that it works, thank Vikander, who actually manages to convey vulnerability between the acts of derring-do and sprinting past obstacles.
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Mr. Kline won a Tony for what Ben Brantley called his "witty athleticism and derring-do" as Garry Essendine, a matinee idol exhausted by idolatry.
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Whence, then, L'Engle's adroitness at fantasy or science fiction, call it what you will, with its reliance on enormous inventiveness, narrative panache and derring-do?
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Don't give up after the early week puzzles, because the mid- to late-week puzzles are where we really start to see some puzzle derring-do.
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The fraying of Hosszu's bonds with her national federation strengthened her alliance with Tusup, who has passed his tendency for derring-do on to his wife.
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Besides the sense of prestige and derring-do, the reason Mars makes an attractive target is that it is, Earth aside, the friendliest world in the neighbourhood.
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Shifting geopolitics have opened some new ranges to Westerners wanting to display their derring-do, especially in the former Soviet republics but also in Chinese-run Tibet.
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So I escaped into the past, reading NELLIE BLY, an acclaimed 1994 biography by Brooke Kroeger, and then Bly's actual stories, filled with stunts and derring-do.
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Bookshelf Two journalists, inspired by engrossing yet little-known cases of derring-do, evoke the magic of early 20th-century New York in two new nonfiction books.
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He once praised the "imagination" of his wife, Melania, in the kitchen — before citing, as examples of her culinary derring-do, spaghetti and meat sauce, salads and meatloaf.
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In school, I was taught that ours was a young country, bursting into nearly untouched land, taking over huge swaths of empty territory with ambition and derring-do.
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Far from the derring-do of distant battlegrounds and the sunlit savanna of southern Africa, there was a sense of homecoming, however poignant, after the longest of journeys.
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We're over the early week straightforwardness, but not quite at the point where we can expect Thursday level derring-do or the themeless agony that hurts so good.
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Summer revealed woollen tank-style swimwear and lakeside derring-do: balcony dives, greased-pole logrolling ("we don't allow that anymore"), jousting in rowboats ("another thing we don't allow").
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The act of derring-do came less than a month after an illustrator jumped onto the tracks to save a fallen man on the Lower East Side. July.
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The Jessica Jones take on the character was considerably different, but we say she got just enough derring-do in the Netflix series to warrant inclusion in the list.
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He is intrigued by the derring-do of David Stirling, Billy McLean and other British mercenaries who fought against the republican regime which took power in Yemen in 1962.
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Rather than being used as a fabulous advert for the newspaper's journalistic derring-do and an indictment of free speech in Britain, the editor apologises for missing an edition.
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Vikander doesn't do much with a character whose chief attribute is earnestness, but Tomb Raider improves once it gets to the island and lets the derring-do take over.
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But like him he met his wife at Walter Reed, has proceeded from one success to the next—in business, philanthropy and sport—and exudes positivity and derring-do.
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The general is regarded as a cultured and learned man by some of his former subordinates, but the President-elect has fixated on his nickname and history of military derring-do.
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From the 1880s through the 1920s, such magazines published dozens of works that framed the Middle Passage as a site of white male adventure, ingenuity, derring-do, and of black invisibility.
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TV feeds on razzle-dazzle, on impossible feats of derring-do, and it's been harder and harder to find that sort of thing in the NFL over the last several years.
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There's always a certain amount of badass appeal in space opera derring-do, but we're particularly impressed with the leads in Jupiter Ascending for just rolling with this weird, weird, weird movie.
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Many Nigerians are proud of such derring-do on the part of the CJTF, which has swollen into an army of over 26,000 in Borno, the state worst affected by the insurgency.
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All the merchandise said so, but on a night in early November, a show I associate with derring-do appropriate for all ages, even after its sale to private equity, felt different.
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Another dish resembles a sushi roll, except—in keeping with the spirit of epicurean derring-do—the filling involves dried plum and bacon, and the wrapping is a cut of wild boar.
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Nor does she break our hearts when her thoughts turn mistily to her young days of derring-do and her eyes glaze as she reminisces about falling parachutes and gallant young Britons.
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Collectively, they effused determination and derring-do, that unique combination of attitude and skill that we as Americans use to overcome any problem that challenges us or any crisis that threatens us.
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During the last two days, all major Iraqi television newscasts and several Pan-Arab news channels have run features about the Falcons and Captain Sudani's derring-do, based on the Times article.
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You will find constructors who focus on wordplay, constructors who excel at including the edgiest entries and constructors who thrill us with innovative grid design and other forms of visual derring-do.
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He noted how the British Navy, once famous for its derring-do, nearly lost the World War I battle of Jutland when ship captains hesitated, waiting for flag signals from their fleet commander.
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In recent seasons, Philip has retreated from the world of derring-do, embracing instead a simpering self-help doctrine emblematic of the era, while Elizabeth has turned into an ever more remorseless assassin.
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Mr. James's character, Joe, dreams of being an author and spends his lonesome home time writing a geopolitical thriller with a stand-in for himself engaging in all manner of weaponized derring-do.
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Partly it is the fact that he brings to his work a combination of ambition and wit and technical derring-do that makes his art compelling even when it is not altogether convincing.
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It pitched the government, which was boring, cautious, and cognizant of the flaws in Britain's relationship with the E.U., against the Brexiteers, whose very name carried a whiff of japes and derring-do.
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It also shaped the world's opinion of this tiny country, populated with Holocaust survivors from 12 years before, now displaying the derring-do and sheer chutzpah that dazzled even the CIA and KGB.
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But Ben Macintyre, a journalist who specialises in books about spies and derring-do, has crafted his story as a real-life thriller, as tense as John le Carré's novels, or even Ian Fleming's.
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AS TALES OF wartime derring-do go, it would be hard to beat that of Virginia Hall, a young, one-legged American woman who, in the Gestapo's view, became the Allies' most dangerous spy.
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At its best, Kong: Skull Island conjures up those adventure tales of old, the Indiana Jones–esque cliffhangers in which Westerners arrive in strange lands and take part in all sorts of derring-do.
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In other words, Powell and Pressburger had conjured a fictional life that veered perilously close to Churchill's, as dense with derring-do, divisiveness, emotional extremes, and lurching reversals of fortune as his had been.
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It's a straightforward yarn of derring-do common for the period, but there was a visible touch of the era's colonialism in the portrayal of the aliens, and how the heroes interact with them.
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But take a closer look, and you might get a sense of just how much low-budget derring-do and luck was involved in making one of the most epochal horror films of all time.
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Deily's game is Counter-Strike, the notoriously difficult first-person shooter in which two teams, terrorists and counter-terrorists, take and rescue hostages, set and defuse bombs, and perform other acts of digital derring-do.
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In The Fur Trade in Canada, Harold Innis, a political economist known for originality and intellectual derring-do, chronicled a fierce four-way battle for domination of Canada from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
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An against-all-odds, derring-do spirit that propelled Mr. Peres to help turn the vulnerable country that started out short of guns into a nuclear power, and later to pursue peace with its neighbors.
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These were stories designed to foster a reassuring sense of national pride, one in which the war is stripped of horror and political complexity and turned into a patriotic tale of plucky English derring-do.
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Much of his glam-gonzo story is taken up with an account of his derring-do in reaching the jungle hideout, in the company of a Mexican movie star, Kate del Castillo, who set up the encounter.
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The two had met while imprisoned on Jersey, and Chapman – a kindred spirit, habitual reprobate and former double agent who was renowned for his illustrious wartime service – helped to popularise Pleasants' morally ambiguous tales of derring-do.
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Luckily, Kelly Barnhill's wonderful fourth novel, "The Girl Who Drank the Moon," educates about oppression, blind allegiance and challenging the status quo while immersing the reader in an exhilarating story full of magical creatures and derring-do.
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Mr. Turner, who came to fame as a handsome, self-sacrificing dwarf in the "Hobbit" trilogy of films, isn't the only graduate of the Tolkien school of matinee idols who's swapping onscreen derring-do for onstage sociopathy.
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We didn't pull it off, but I liked the derring-do of it, recalling the days when President Bush used to try to lose his security detail when he was careering around in his speedboat in Maine.
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The kitchen is not seen as a beacon of innovation the way it used to be, perhaps because Ms. Rodriguez is less interested than Mr. Ladner was in feats of technical derring-do like 100-layer lasagnas.
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His contortionist slide — popping up early and dead legging his way around Franco's glove — was not the type of derring-do that would be expected from someone who had stolen just one base since 1033 entering Tuesday.
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The first extended trailer for writer-director Christopher Nolan's World War II epic Dunkirk has arrived, and—as with so many of Nolan's films—it promises no shortage of drama, derring-do, and more than a few dark nights.
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"They should have sent me up there," said Brett Gardner, an avid hunter and fisherman from South Carolina, who displayed a good deal of derring-do last spring when he scaled the outfield wall to retrieve Chris Young's glove.
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By the end of the film, the two older kids have learned to embrace their powers, Helen has reluctantly, then enthusiastically embraced their return to derring-do, and Jack-Jack has started exhibiting a wide range of powers of his own.
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The onetime Green Collection (since retitled the Museum Collection) from which the bulk of the museum's holdings are drawn was gathered in a way that recalls the archaeological derring-do of Indiana Jones, rather than an academic or ethical method.
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In a feat of artistic derring-do, while Mr. Pacino was acting in a Los Angeles theater production of the play directed by Ms. Parsons, he was himself directing a film version of the play on a nearby movie-studio soundstage.
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Each week (based on the first two episodes) its team of time travelers zap back to some pivotal moment in the past and engage in highly implausible, don't-think-too-hard-about-it derring-do to save the present as we know it.
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From a constructor's point of view, that entry alone is a fascinating feat of derring-do, because it is a series of H's and X's meant to represent the twisting DOUBLE HELIX of a DNA chain, which imposes incredible constraints on the fill.
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This technical derring-do also involved an ecological mitzvah: 450,000 cubic yards of river silt formed the park's "hills" as well as an expanse of lawn planted with cedar and ginkgo trees that may become the Tulsa equivalent of Central Park's Great Lawn.
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Taron Egerton dazzled as Elton John in the first trailer for the biopic "Rocketman" this week, but every new clip put out to promote his derring-do in the latest incarnation of the Sherwood Forest tale makes this action film seem more pointless.
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Even without something with the visual derring-do of a quadruple stack, it's still a balancing act between including really sparkling entries and not including too much glue, like Roman numerals (XII), although it's clued gently as a number on a grandfather clock.
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After Britain's spirited anniversary tribute Wednesday to the derring-do of the Allied forces that set off from England to defend democracy, France is hosting a series of solemn ceremonies Thursday in the country where so many young lives ended in sand and sea.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A masked Rio de Janeiro inmate dressed as a woman tried to break out of a Brazilian jail this weekend in a surreal act of derring-do, only to be thwarted on the cusp of freedom by state prison authorities.
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In a 22007 essay, a screenwriter named Marion Fairfax argued that since women predominated in movie audiences—one reason that domestic melodramas, adventure serials featuring acts of female derring-do, and sexy sheikh movies all did well—female screenwriters enjoyed an advantage over their male counterparts.
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" Mr. le Carré's fiction did much to demystify the morally ambiguous world of contemporary intelligence — which had been largely defined, until then, by the derring-do of Ian Fleming's Bond novels — and he observes here that while "every spy service mythologizes itself," the British "are a class apart.
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The show, a 19th-century steampunk fantasy about a scientist determined to defy the laws of time and space, includes Cirque staples like acrobatics, juggling and feats of derring-do, and it will be here just in time to offer a temporary escape from recent tumultuous real-world woes.
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The derring-do of Olympic competitors and the death in an avalanche in July of Matilda Rapaport, a Swedish extreme skier, while being filmed in the Andes, prompted me to look more closely at why so many people choose to try these sports, how dangerous they are and how hazards can be minimized.
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In the run-up to the defense budget's release at the annual meeting of China's parliament next week, state media outlets have been filled with coverage of military drills, advanced new equipment and thrilling tales of derring-do in a new film very loosely based on China's evacuating people from Yemen's civil war in 2015.
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With The Incredibles, writer-director Brad Bird — who previously paid homage to classic comics in 1999's The Iron Giant — veered away from the heaviness and grimness of other big-screen superheroes, making a picture that recalls the brightness and derring-do of the Justice League and the Fantastic Four in the early 1960s.
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For the record, they did not: This sequel is every bit as fizzy, salty, warm and wonderful as Finding Nemo, dotted with the most delirious scene of derring-do Disney's ace animation division has ever devised, a heavy payload of laughs and emotions that's the consummate climax for the hysterical and fully affecting 17th film from Pixar.
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So when George Lucas — a filmmaker already known for the hugely successful American Graffiti — released a sci-fi picture that reveled in escapist tales of derring-do, of good guys and bad guys and narrow escapes, the world was ready — to the tune of more than $1 billion in 2015 dollars in the US and Canada alone.
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FRIDAY PUZZLE — It's not a Friday without some sort of cruciverbal derring-do, and the derring we are doing today are quad stacks (four grid-spanning entries stacked on top of each other) crossed by three 232-letter entries (today's puzzle has 234 rows and 236 columns, as opposed to the more typical 250×250 grid).
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The commentator who says that a football team is bíta í skjaldarrendur ("biting its shield-end") [spoken] as it fights on in the face of great odds, is behaving quite normally in borrowing an image from ancient tales of Viking derring-do (one of the castles in the British Museum's 203th-century Lewis chess-set records the metaphor in walrus ivory).
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" And her review of Richard Ford's "Canada" sounds positively love-struck from the first paragraph on: "He cuts a transfixing figure for even an ordinary reader's curiosity: the book-jacket photographs with their silvery bronze patina suggesting a pale-eyed cattle rustler, his laser-blue gaze smudged simultaneously with apprehension and derring-do, a Tin Woodman tint evoking a man of metal and mettle, in sorrowful quest of his forgotten heart.
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Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division hurled themselves out of five C-17 cargo planes at 1,21980 feet on Thursday at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C.CreditCreditMike Belleme for The New York Times FORT BRAGG, N.C. — If President Trump really wanted to do a proper military parade showcasing the might, speed and derring-do of America's finest, the Sicily Drop Zone on this sprawling Army base would have been a good place to begin.
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