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...those brave enough to step aboard. Park operators are also souping up old coasters and bringing others out of mothballs in a race to produce the terrifying rides. A total of 176 coasters are running in the U.S., up from 147 in 1978 and the most since the heyday of the 1920s...
DRIVING BACK TO central Pennsylvania with my developing chemicals and enlarger in my trunk, I feel a little like a Civil War photographer travelling with a darkroom in his covered wagon. I'm headed for an old eight-bedroom farmhouse that saw its heyday fifty years ago when, according to my mother, it boasted the largest barn in the valley. Now, only the first floor is occupied by tenants who come and go. I'll live there for four weeks while I photograph the people I meet and learn about the rural valley where my mother was born and raised...
CHOPIN: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 1 & 2 (Sony Classical). Ably accompanied by Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic, Murray Perahia shows a pianistic warmth, incisive brilliance and mastery of these pieces unrivaled since Rubinstein's heyday...
Phillips brings the authority of statistics and history to his argument: with an elegant weaving of charts and cultural observations, he paints a picture of the Reagan decade as America's third period of "heyday capitalism," when the poor got poorer, the middle class had to get rich in order to retain a middle-class life-style, and being rich had to be redefined to account for the tripling in the number of multimillionaires...
...stands variously for Praise The Lord or People That Love, but PTL, the former evangelistic empire of Jim Bakker, has recently spelled nothing but trouble. In its heyday, PTL operated the biggest all-day, all-God TV network and reached 14 million cable households, in addition to controlling a theme park and retirement village. But its founder's fall and imprisonment shattered the empire and left it bankrupt. Last week it got a new -- and quite unexpected -- owner...