Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the movie makers agreed (or cared) about what was going on. No one explains how an ex-banker turns into a talented teamster, or why the oil company does not simply fly some explosives from the States (no air trip could be more dangerously turbulent than the truck ride). What is certain is that for the rest of this long movie we watch two trucks with four truck drivers negotiate some difficult roads in the rain. Along the way they encounter such exciting obstacles as an Indian who makes faces at them, a bridge that swings when the wind...
...University's reading center this summer. Amy, who starts the fifth grade in September, and a dozen or so other fourth-through sixth-graders will read and compile handbooks on the subject of transportation. They will also take field trips to Washington's Air and Space Museum, ride the Metro and travel down the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on a mule-drawn barge. What were Amy's qualifications to join the highly selective group? Well, for one thing, the directors felt that she showed a strong potential for leadership...
...climax. So the movie just sort of peters out as everybody chases about at Los Angeles' Magic Mountain park. Couldn't hero and villain at least have wrestled around up there atop the scary Magic Mountain coaster? Why did they bring Segal's daughter near the ride if they were not going to put her on it and thus into thrilling jeopardy...
...Boston Museum of Fine Art is one of the country's largest art museums and a must for any student of Impressionism. The MFA currently has several special exhibitions easily worth a quick ride down the green line. More than 100 of 19th century American artist Winslow Homer's works are on display until Sept. 4. The comprehensive show covers almost every stage of the artist's career including his early lithographs, his Civil War drawings and, of course, his seacoast watercolors. Complementing the Homer exhibition is "Watercolor in 19th Century Europe," a selection of watercolors by Homer's European...
...metal roller coaster draws its inspiration from the aerospace industry. "We take great precautions to ensure that the biomechanical aspects of the rides are within the limits a rider can endure," says Terry Brown, vice president of Arrow Development Co. "We check each ride with instruments. The computer tells us about velocity, centrifugal forces and stresses...