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...agonizing, gushing laceration. Soon I got the hang of things, the hand signals, the lingo, and before long I was turning a sizable profit. The first night that I returned home with a crisp Ben Franklin in my wallet, I knew that I was a casino man, a high roller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confessions of a Gambling Addict | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

...Tonya Harding, the truck-driving heroine of that infamous gang of hockey pucks who conspired to conk Kerrigan on the knee--inadvertently adding a booster jet to skating's already soaring popularity--has, depending on the day, seemed just a fast buck away from wet-T-shirt contests, the roller derby or jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After The Glory | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

What is to be Done continued to expand its listings and attract advertisers. By the end of the seventies, the magazine had published countless roller-disco promotions as well as interviews with Robert Altman, Eugene Ionesco and Orson Welles...

Author: By Jonathan S. Paul, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Magazine Adds Art, Pop Culture | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...first thing you notice when your plane suddenly begins to drop is that you're becoming weightless. For those who like roller coasters, the sensation may not be too bad. Quickly, however, zero-G can become negative-G, meaning anything not fastened or seat-belted down will slam into the ceiling. Food trays get tossed, cutlery gets flung, carry-ons fly up as tray tables bang down. After a few seconds the plane stabilizes, and anything--or anyone--stuck to the ceiling crashes to the floor. Another case of midair turbulence is quickly over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heading Into Thick Air | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Roller Coaster Cyberspace's No. 1 online service was one long busy signal last winter, leading critics to predict gleefully the pre-Web relic's demise. Well, if you bought AOL stock in, say, January, you would have nearly quadrupled your money by Thanksgiving. Could AOL chairman Steve Case be the new Michael Eisner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYBERTECH: THE BEST CYBERTECH OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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