News to Order Publicity stunts undertaken by press agent Jim Moran, 1938-1959: Sold a refrigerator to an Eskimo in AlaskaThrew eggs at an electric fanChanged horses in midstream in a Nevada riverSought a needle in a haystack (for 10 days)Walked a bull through a New York china shopHatched an ostrich egg (by sitting on it for 19 days)Opened a Washington embassy for a mythical country By the 1950s the era of the flamboyant stunt was ending, and authorities put a stop to Moran’s more ambitious schemes. He said, “It’s a sad day for American capitalism when a man can’t fly a midget on a kite over Central Park.”
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Edgar Allen Poe Rap - The Pit and the Pendulum Hip-Hop We bring you Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” in one terrifying rap song. The lyrics summarize the plot of Poe’s classic tale of torture. First, the narrator gets thrown in prison, and then he’s surrounded by darkness. This video was produced through a partnership with READ Magazine. I'm accused of something, standing in a room or something, With candles and three dudes dressed in black. You go round and round, It comes down and down, You know, nothing but your soul deep in the cell, If the pit don’t get you then the pendulum will. I go back to measuring the cell, Well, it seems about a hundred paces but face it, I'm confused, and then I trip over my laces, And fall to the floor, but where my face is, Isn’t the floor, it's a pit, I don't know deep. You go round and round, It comes down and down, You know, nothing but your soul deep in the cell, If the pit don’t get you then the pendulum will. But what torture awaits me now? Well, he might have yelled that.