Word: riding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vegas. Not only does he controls who enters and who leaves, and all they do while they stay there. We never see anyone come or go who is not driven in by Destiny or transported out by his pool. Even Vidivici, the record producer, must hitch a ride, because he has no car. When a relationship starts or ends or succeeds, it is always because Destiny has allowed or caused it to happen. These ideas are intriguing, but, like Las Vegas itself, the script that contains them is all promise, all show and no substance...
Most of the bikes point to easy parking as the major advantage to the motorcycle over the car. McPartland, part of the Winthrop suite, often rides his Maxim 550 Yamaha bike between Winthrop and his classes in the yard. "If I can go some-where where there's an option between walking and riding, I'll ride." When asked if this made him feel lazy, McPartland responded with assurance, "I feel lazy regardless. It doesn't matter." But Rich Beukema, a senior in Winthrop who has ridden across the country three times on his bike and currently rides a Honda...
These Harvard riders apparently get a lot of attention while on their bikes from fellow students, women in particular. "A lot of girls want rides," Millan says, "but I have a girlfriend." Reactions to a first ride on a motorcycle very drastically according to Beukema. "Half love it and half give you a speech on how dangerous bikes...
Well, Vegas has already done that for Eisner. The town is Disneyfied in two important ways. One is that its shows have the Good-Lord-what-next? suspense of a Disney World thrill ride. Or as Tom Bruny, the MGM Grand's director of advertising, explains the challenge of creating EFX: "We knew we had to produce a 'gee whiz' show, but we didn't want it to be just a 'gee whiz' show...
...transcend this outsize format. And some, like EFX--a $67 million investment, including $27 million to equip its theater with 3-D movie projection, a "fog wall" of steam and liquid nitrogen and hot-wired rumble seats--are content to give visitors a hell of a high-tech ride...