Word: carousels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Once a children's delight in hundreds of towns and cities, carousels in the U.S. now number fewer than 100. Amusement parks have been replacing costly old carousels with modern plastic and aluminum rides that are both peppier and easier to maintain. Carousels, meanwhile, are chopped up, their horses turned into bar stools, heads cut from bodies, and carved wooden animals sold to antique dealers. "Carousels are diminishing to a terrible extent," mourns Frederick Fried, author of A Pictorial History of the Carousel. To halt the destruction, more than 200 lovers of that old amusement-park staple gathered...
...group will be on the lookout for melodious menageries that may be headed for the electric saw. Is there still room in the American imagination for the quaint, circling beauty of a carousel aglitter with colored glass and alive with organ music? "The carousel is an art form," says Fried, "the greatest mobile. I consider them to be like great American landmarks...
...kind of high-stepping variation on Two Wom en. James Coco is soundly defeated by the role of Sancho Panza. The score by Composer Mitch Leigh and Lyricist Joe Darion contains the inescapable ballad The Impossible Dream, surely the most mercilessly lachrymose hymn to empty-headed optimism since Carousel's You'll Never Walk Alone. One expects to learn at any moment that it will be come the national anthem of some newly emerging nation...
...Emerson Permacolor television set (p. 11); a sterling silver Sheaffer pen (p. 12); a General Electric Potscrubber dishwasher (p. 25); Seagram's Crown Royal (p. 26); flying with Jo on National Airlines (pp. 41-42a); some De Beers Consolidated diamonds (p. 56); a Kodak Carousel projector (p. 76); and a Gran Torino Hardtop with bucket seats, vinyl roof, wheel trim rings and white sidewalls (back cover...
...prison with far more sympathy than antipathy in the capital, where he still retains a strange kind of trust. Just a few days earlier, he was able to borrow more than $500,000 from several banks to continue a condominium development he has started next to his Carousel motel in Ocean City, Md. Still, he says, "Russia wouldn't have treated me the way this country has." In the next breath he adds: "But I have no great resentment. No, this is a great country. It's done a lot for me. I like to think I have...