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...Disneyland. The ride employs the technology of flight simulators, the devices used for training pilots and astronauts. Hydraulically powered, the StarSpeeder 3000 cabin shakes, rattles and rolls its 40 passengers at angles up to 35 degrees as they watch a 4 1/2-minute spaceflight film by Star Wars Creator George Lucas...
...artists dictate how their work must be hung? Can they object to temporary embellishments? Canadian Artist Michael Snow successfully sued a Toronto shopping center that owned his sculpture Flight Stop because they had decked it with red Christmas ribbons. And once a work is in public, may its creator require that it remain there? "Should one generation of artists impose its taste on history?" asks Stephen Weil, deputy director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington...
...hard they are to come by, what luck is required in the quest, and how rarely artists themselves confront their difficulties in an engaging spirit. The whine of self-pity, the bombast of self-aggrandizement, the low moan of tragedy are the notes most often heard from the creator on the subject of his life...
...candidates have been quick to respond. Most have produced either a touching story of an aged parent or, in the case of Michael Dukakis, the real thing. Jesse Jackson, invoking Social Security's creator, tells voters that he "would rather have Franklin Roosevelt in a wheelchair than Ronald Reagan on a horse." Virtually all have come out in support of the long-term health- care bill now stalled in Congress, which, if it ever passed, would cost the Government tens of billions of dollars over the next five years. Only Republican Pete du Pont has proposed radically restructuring Social Security...
...book, which is the first novel by the prolific creator of the New Journalism school of writing, is ultimately a story of character, not plot. While the scope of Bonfire is as disparate as the five boroughs, the themes are precise: personal ambition, egotism--Vanity...