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...staggered away from the "Whizzer" and stumbled into the line for "The Demon." This ride seemed a more conventional roller coaster with a hill, a turn, a rise, a dip, none of which looked terribly menacing. But as the line snaked its way around a plaster mountain placed there for atmospheric effect, "The Demon's" devilish aspects revealed themselves. I had seen the tame initial drop; I had not seen the loop that towered over the fake mountain. My first inclination was to leave the line, but embarrassment is a powerful force. I stayed put. A few minutes later...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Holding On For Dear Life | 9/30/1981 | See Source »

When the ride was over, I did it again. And again. And again. Three times in an hour. I stayed away from "Willard's Whizzer," but I rode the "Tidal Wave" and "The Demon" twice more each. In my euphoria, I decided I could do just about anything. So I ended the day with a spin on the merry-go-round. It made me very sick to my stomach...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Holding On For Dear Life | 9/30/1981 | See Source »

...support of President Goukouni Oueddei in that country's civil war. This was exactly the sort of move that has enraged Gaddafi's neighbors-especially Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, who has called the Libyan leader "a vicious criminal, 100% sick and possessed of a demon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Thriving on Trouble | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

Almost everyone has heard of Lolita 's hero, Humbert Humbert (Donald Sutherland), a richly cultured European emigre who lusts perversely and voraciously for prepubescent girls whom he calls nymphets. In the nymphet he finds an "elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm" and something of a "demon." In a small New England town he spots his divine demon, Dolores Haze, a girl of 11½, played in this production by 24-year-old Blanche Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Lo and Hum as Ho and Hum | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...break out of the circle by joining Jann Wenner in a new magazine called Outside, and discovering Wenner as disappointing a publisher as assorted Hearsts had been. Despite a faithful recording of the tensions within the Corporation, Chaney and Cieply never probe very deeply, never confronting the intra-familial demon wrestling the Hearst dynasty...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: An American Poppa | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

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