Word: coasters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...malefactor. He may find fellowship with Patricia Clarkson, a Sondra Locke look-alike who plays a prying TV reporter. And he does get to drive in the big chase scene, in which a remote-controlled toy car with explosives attached hounds Harry through the town's roller-coaster streets. True Californians, he and his partner never think to get out and run for cover. But then, this picture's soul is located 400 miles south, in the Los Angeles movie industry, where metaphorical backstabbing is business as usual. "It's not a rip-off," says the slasher auteur about...
Within another 24 hours he was riding the roller coaster of emotions back down. He boarded the White House elevator to go to the lawn for a helicopter trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to visit El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte, gravely ill with cancer. On the elevator he was told that Attorney General Edwin Meese was calling. Reagan ducked into the White House physician's office and took the phone. Meese was in California. "Mr. President," he said, "I talked to you earlier about resigning. Now is the time I should...
...White's Scary Adventures) promoted the films. The Disney characters strolling through the parks served as free commercials for the Mickey Mouse back scratchers, Goofy bikinis, "Totally Minnie" fashions and Donald Duck notepaper (with the warning READ MY LIPS) on sale in the parks' stores. And in creating roller-coaster rides with a story line, Disney helped shape the course of movie narratives. George Lucas designed the Star Tours ride for Disneyland, and is planning an Indiana Jones attraction, but he is only returning a big favor. Lucas' movies are essentially Disney theme-park rides transferred to film. They...
This goal was not just Sasner's effort; the shot itself was a wristshot from 15 feet out. The goal was set up by a roller-coaster sequence of events...
...Ferris wheel peeks over the roof into the stadium, and a roller coaster screams by third base. Though the infield grass is plastic, the place is handsome. "Almost too nice," says the pitcher Bret Saberhagen. "It doesn't feel like spring training." In the name of civic pride and the interest of land development, tin and wood are being traded everywhere for aluminum and concrete...