Word: coasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emperor gets bogged down in a cycle of sad, mournful, barely audible line-readings followed by maniacal, ear-shattering ranting and ravings. Myers fails to stress the other side of the emperor--the cool, calculating, dispassionate side. After a while, the audience feels like it is on a roller-coaster--one gets the stop-and-start effect, but it's a little difficult to enjoy the scenery. He does show potential in his final soliloquy, as well as in the last moments of the play when he risks his health by falling several feet from a platform, blood dripping from...
...doing a cover story on Cheryl Tiegs, you have strapped her into the roller coaster called the American media. I sincerely hope that she survives the twists and turns of that ride with all of her freshness, eroticism, beauty and sensuality intact. She is a national treasure...
...always insist upon perfect timing, even if it means a high-speed chase through the pot-holed streets of the City. Commuting by cab is a sure-fire route to hypertension, ulcers and the inability to lace up one's own Adidas. It's kind of like the rolled coaster, whip, and bumper cars all rolled into one and set loose on the streets...
...loss of Hughes, though, is undeniably crucial. Jack has been the one consistent bright spot in what has otherwise been a roller coaster year behind the Harvard blue line. Now it is unlikely that last season's ECAC Rookie of the Year will recover in time for the Beanpot next month...
...contract with the Iranian government to develop and promote a giant amusement park complex outside Tehran. Chief Planner Harold Goyette calls the deal "an exciting prospect," adding that he has no reservations about being under contract to the repressive Iranian regime. "The kids will enjoy riding the roller coaster and the log flume. This will tend to 'open up' the regime, I think. I have no problem with any sort of torture in this case, save that bore of riding on substandard log flumes or roller coasters...