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...this nice seamless interconnection." Kick-starting the film program next month is the exhibition "Kiss of the Beast," which uses the original 1933 King Kong to explore the relationship between man and beast in art. (Nice timing, Brisbane: Peter Jackson's new version of the ape epic is set to open worldwide in December...
...ULTIMATE Ripon, Britain If you're a glutton for punishment, you'll enjoy the Ultimate, one of the world's longest coasters. Built in 1991, it offers a 6-min. ride (epic by coaster standards) through 2.27 km of countryside, albeit at a relatively genteel top speed of 80 km/h...
...reminiscent of Dante’s journey to the depths of Hell in “The Divine Comedy.” Mike is separated from his girlfriend Jane during the chaotic hours after the attacks, evoking memories of the pair of lovers in Dante’s epic – Francesca and Paulo – who are tossed around by the “stormy blast of Hell.” McDonell’s image of a turban-wearing taxi driver – unconscious and blood-soaked in a smoking cab on a West Side...
...world's most copied roller coaster, with seven replicas operating in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The Ultimate Ripon, England If you're a glutton for punishment, you'll enjoy the Ultimate, one of the world's longest coasters. Built in 1991, it offers a 6-min. ride (epic by coaster standards) through 2.27 km of countryside, albeit at a relatively genteel top speed of 80 km/h. SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES; COASTER CULTURE Can't get enough of coasters, or think you can do better than the engineers? Then try Atari's Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 (rollercoastertycoon.com), a computer game...
...debut novel, 2000's Bee Season, Myla Goldberg intricately etched four members of a contemporary Jewish family and set them in motion against one another, charting the repercussions of even their subtlest interactions. For her follow-up, the author changes tack completely, striving for the historical epic. In Wickett's Remedy (Doubleday; 336 pages), the travails of Lydia Kilkenny, a young woman from an impoverished Irish Catholic family, are rooted in such global events as World War I and the 1918 flu epidemic that left millions dead...