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LAST WEEK Alfred Hitchcock ascended his last staircase at age 80. He defined suspense in the cinema, playing with his audience's expectations, sustaining nearly unbearable levels of tension for reel after reel until everything exploded in one of his legendary roller-coaster "sequences"--the crop-dusting scene in North by Northwest, the shower scene in Psycho, the amusement park in Strangers on a Train, the back of the potato truck in Frenzy--you could go on and on. His films were really comedies, from the sick joke of Psycho to Cary Grant's "Wait a minute, fellas...
...There's the contrast--Carter is now on his sixth version of where he stands on the budget. He's on a roller coaster, lurching from left to right.... People are starting to say, 'I'm not sure I trust Carter...
...with a wildly debonair angling, self-assured, and then, as the course got straighter and rougher, he bounced several times violently for an instant as if he had lost everything, his limbs doing minute, chaotic leaps-roughly the effect of a man being electrocuted while descending on a roller coaster. Once or twice his ski tips flipped up anarchically for a nanosecond in the direction of his nose. With his strong, gyroscopic instincts, Stock disciplined those little apocalypses and hurtled on, his body tucked into a bullet, a jaunty and maniacal capsule rocketing down the mountainside...
...coast on his past achievements, Richard Rodriguez, 22, was riding high last week on the Florida Hurricane near Orlando. He already held four Guinness world records for roller-coaster riding, his first at age 18 with 104 hours aboard Coney Island's celebrated Cyclone. Now he was out for his fifth, this time on the Hurricane, which climbs and plunges along a 3,500 ft. course for two minutes at speeds of up to 60 m.p.h...
...price frenzy. While bullion traders from Hong Kong to Zurich to Kansas City gaped in amazement, panicky investors big and small reacted to the worsening turmoil in the Middle East and the increasingly troubled world economy. They sent precious metal bars, coins and trinkets on the most dizzying roller-coaster ride in memory. Prices touched levels that were inconceivable a few months ago. Said a New York commodities expert, George Clarke, in a revealing if overwrought explanation of the market's extreme volatility and nervousness: "In my opinion what is happening is that the world is looking at World...