Mrs. Clinton may be entrenched behind a political Maginot line, preparing to defeat an opponent who is contemplating a new, more daring maneuver for victory.
On the Times Op-Ed page, Francis Wilkinson makes the case that, as he puts it, "Mrs. Clinton may be entrenched behind a political Maginot line, preparing to defeat an opponent who is contemplating a new, more daring maneuver for victory".
During her breakthrough performance in Anaheim, she roused spectators by becoming the first to perform a daring somersault maneuver known as the piked Arabian double front.
This daring maneuver was the single most commented-on aspect of the show.
The video, which was posted on YouTube, looks like a special effects reel for a Hollywood action flick, but it's the Red Bull Air Force (RBAF) performing a series of daring maneuvers in one of the world's most scenic settings: Fisher Towers in Moab, Utah.
Not the falls itself, as Petit points out: he put his manila rope across a narrow gorge some distance below the falls and enthralled thousands of spectators with his daring maneuvers; on one crossing he cooked and ate an omelette.
American aerobatic pilot who traveled the U.S. air-show circuit during the 1940s, performing such daring maneuvers as the "inverted ribbon cut," which consisted of slicing a ribbon with the propeller of her Pitts biplane, Little Stinker, while flying at about 240 km/hr (150 mph) upside down just 3 m (10 ft) off the ground.
The "inverted ribbon cut" was one of Betty Skelton's most daring maneuvers, in which she flew her single-seat, open-cockpit biplane upside down at about 150 miles per hour, maybe 10 feet above the ground, and sliced through a ribbon stretched between two poles.
Earlier this year Formula One pulled off one of the most daring maneuvers in the 68-year history of the auto racing series when it launched its F1 TV online streaming service.
The executive officer aboard Maddox observed Jim's daring maneuvers and thought the aviator either insane or the finest pilot he'd ever seen.
