Word: coasters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, there is no reason to transfer to UC-Santa Cruz. From the West Coaster homesick for salty ocean spray to the land-locked Midlander who wants to discover the wonders of the sea, this area has something to offer anyone who wants to go wading in something other than a plastic baby pool...
...hard-headedness and supposed courage does not make for substance either. And voting for a strong leader like Perot without any sense of where he would take the country could mean a roller-coaster ride without a place...
...upgraded. La Cabane des Robinson (Swiss Family Robinson Tree House) includes cunning new cave trails of "rock" artfully sculpted by the Disney team. Pirates of the Caribbean is a spookier and more elaborate cruise among brigand lowlifes. Big Thunder Mountain has been refined into one of the great coaster rides, with new ascents and dips and two hurtling trips in the dark...
Imagine William Faulkner in a fright wig or Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor strapped side by side on a roller coaster, and you have Harry Crews writing Southern gothic. In 1990 he produced the uproarious Body, in which he yoked a family of half-crazy Georgia crackers to the queasy glitz of big-time body building. Now there's Scar Lover, a comic love story filled with death and mutilation...
...some level, the result of a professional one: Turner's adjusting to his new environment. "He went from the hearty camaraderie of the Chamber of Commerce and locker-room crowds to the world of great leaders." More important, what Turner recognized in the mid-'80s was that his roller-coaster emotional life, which had served him well in his risk-taking entrepreneurial days, was not particularly useful in running an international company with long-term ambitions and an estimated worth well in excess of $7 billion. The businessman who three times in his life had leveraged almost everything he owned...