Word: rollered
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...doesn't attempt to impart knowledge: there are no signboards listing the scientific names of the 20,000 fish, dolphins and penguins within, or diagrams of their anatomies. Instead, all the exhausted office worker needs to do is look at the pretty creatures swimming by. Even the adjacent roller coaster betrays a generation bias, drawing inspiration from Galaxy Express 999, a 1970s manga that Japanese adults remember nostalgically but not a cartoon their children would watch. The Epson Aqua Stadium is generally open from noon until 10 p.m. nightly - long after the little ones...
...scene looks exactly like something from a mainstream superhero book, but with important differences. Thanks to starting his career drawing a different kind of loser hero, Marvel's ill-conceived Dazzler series, about a crime-fighting roller disco queen, Chadwick knows the basics of the mainstream look. Using the best of that style, such as its dramatic angles, to create dynamic pages, Chadwick also infuses the artwork with quirks, like the frequent use of X-ray shots into a character's body, so that no one could mistake it for mere hackwork. Another major difference between The Human Dilemma...
DIED. LESLIE SMITH, 87, co-founder of Lesney Products, maker of Matchbox cars; in north London. After World War II, he established a die-casting shop with a fellow veteran and sold his first toy, a small brass road roller, in 1952. The next year Lesney introduced its first Matchbox cars--cement mixers, dump trucks and road rollers--and a decade later was selling 50 million of them a year...
...m.p.h. Top speed of Kingda Ka, the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster, which opened last week at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson...
...spiders walked on his face, beautiful girls reached alluringly from the screen. Then, just when a man's guard was up, came a roar of sound from the balcony, and, caught from behind and before, he was yanked into the screen and taken for a thrilling ride on a roller coaster. Had Hollywood really done any more than recapture the public's attention by slapping it in the face? Had a real technical and artistic revolution been started in the movie world? Said one moviemaker confidently: "Hollywood is at the beginning of a new age of prosperity...