Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This Desire? never specifies the exact destination for which Harvey was reaching. The ride, though, is thrilling and fascinating, her riddles more powerful for remaining in code. Like Madonna's Ray of Light, which illuminated much but kept some spaces sacred, Harvey's album uses rock at its most modern and electronic to reveal--almost--an artist more fully and humanly herself than we have previously seen her. Even we who have loved all her incarnations will take pleasure and interest in what Polly Jean lays out for us here. God bless her--she tears our hearts out every time...
CYBER CYCLONE: It's do-it-yourself coaster thrills on CyberSpace Mountain at DisneyQuest, the huge video arcade in Florida's Walt Disney World. Visitors design their own ride, including broken track and 360[degree] loops, then are strapped into a pitch-and-roll simulator for 90 seconds of disorienting fun. Fret not, coaster geezers: though you don't go far, you can still get motion sickness...
...infuses Floating with energy and immediacy, bringing the desires and heart-wrenching dilemmas of her characters a sickening sense of reality. Whatever her other characteristics, Ruby is true to life in that she cannot be separated from her history and her responsibilities. She cannot simply find her true love, ride off into the sunset, and live happily ever after, not because she is uncommonly weak, but because she is uncommonly real. In the closing scene of the novel, Ruby is forced to chose between leaving with her husband's brother and remaining as her husband comes home. Clearly, regardless...
Elephant or camel, elephant or camel--that's the sort of tough decision today's kid has to make. The Topsfield fair offers not one but two species of animal to take for a ride. Up to five children can ride on the powerful elephant as it lumbers within the small enclosure, an idyllic joyride on one of nature's gentle giants. Outside of this peaceful scene, however, concerned parents trade stories of elephant ride horrors. "I heard that this elephant went nuts and bit its trainer in the mouth," an excited mother says to a friend, "Then it knocked...
...university investors say the strong markets of the past few years and the consequent record-breaking endowment growth have provided "cushioning" to soften the affects of this year's bumpy ride...