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...remarkably tight races, Republicans alsothreatened the re-election bids of New Jersey Gov.Jim Florio and New York Mayor David Dinkins. NewYork and New Jersey were too close for comfort--orsafe predictions--as voters got the final sayafter roller-coaster campaigns...
...even of the zap-you're-dead! variety. TV, video games and videocassettes keep folks hermited away; VR gets them out of the house with a new gimmick -- a twist on the lures that '50s moviemakers, faced with the challenge of TV, offered film audiences with Cinerama's roller-coaster ride, 3-D's spears and paddleball, William Castle's Tingler showmanship...
...Society's production of The Heidi Chronicles sustained an exhaustive exhibition of the psychology of Baby Boomer life over 25 years with almost electric atmosphere. The cast's intensly emotional interactions, bristling with insecurity, love and pain, kept the audience on a two-and-a-half hour empathetic roller-coaster...
Harris' path to resignation was anything but straight. "There have been so many twists and turns in our policy that it's been a real roller-coaster ride," he says. Considered energetic and capable by his superiors, he proved unusually outspoken for a mid-level Foreign Service officer. In April he and 11 colleagues wrote a letter to Christopher urging military intervention to help the Muslims; the missive somehow leaked to the New York Times. In May, when Christopher asked the allies to lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian government and bomb Serb targets, "we were excited that...
...Last week, the president-elect described the last days in his home state as an emotional roller coaster ride. At times, he said, he was overcome with tears for no apparent reason . . ." -- HOUSTON CHRONICLE...