Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those not quite so acclimated with the Christian tradition, a short trip over scenic desert regions and barbed wire would land them in Muslim-Land. Muslims would absolutely flip for the renovated Dome of the Rock, re-done as a religious "Space Mountain" roller-coaster ride...
...About five years ago this stuff was really popular. You could get skateboard stickers in Cap'n Crunch," recalls one salesman at Dave's Bike Infirmary, a bicycle shop that has carried skateboards since 1976. "I don't know why--it just suddenly faded. Maybe roller disco or break dancing had something to do with that," he adds...
...Harvard expert, though, isn't totally impressed. Touring space is a "hell of a roller-coaster ride," said David W. Latham, the associate director of the Center for Astrophysics...
...bookseller named Marguerite McClure. They settled in the creaky beach community of Venice, Calif. Recalls Bradbury: "If a time machine were to return us to that now fashionable scene it would be unrecognizable. An amusement park was going to seed. Lion cages were sunk in the water. The roller coaster was decaying, ready to fall into the sea. All around us was a freak show of old movie personalities and show-business hangers-on. It was like something out of a novel...
Here the protagonist is an anonymous young writer hacking out Bradburyesque stories for the pulps. The time is 1949, the place is Venice, and in the distance the pier is "falling apart and dying in the sea and you could find there the bones of a vast dinosaur, the roller coaster, being covered by the shifting tides...