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...buying reached such a pitch that thousands of hopeful pilgrims flocked in from Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and even farther afield. Players who spent as long as three hours in line came with big dreams of what they would buy (a Tudor house, the New York Yankees), small ones (roller skates for little brother) or get-even ones (buy the firm and fire the boss) if their luck prevailed. In the final hours before the drawing, it seemed nobody could be thinking of the mathematically exact odds of 6,135,756 to 1. Banker Jurgis Savaitis, 64, who doubtless knew...
...like the best roller-coaster ride you had when you were a ten-year- old." So says Steven Trotter, 22, of his 176-ft. plunge over Niagara Falls last week. Lying inside two pickle barrels ringed with giant inflated inner tubes and layers of fiber glass, the part-time bartender from Barrington, R.I., is the seventh known person to go over the falls and survive. Trotter, who carried a two-way radio and two oxygen tanks in the event he ran into trouble at the bottom of the falls, says he took the plunge "to get recognition as a stunt...
...kosher restaurant in West Los Angeles with her second husband Bernie while moonlighting as an extra in the Amazing Stories episode directed by Clint Eastwood. Back in the early '60s, though, in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Leah Spielberg could summon just enough energy to ride the roller coaster called Young Steven. "He was my first, so I didn't know that everybody didn't have kids like him," she recalls with a happy shrug. "I just hung on for dear life. He was always the center of attention, ruling his three younger sisters. And me too, actually. Our living...
...April Street, in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, there flowed last week a motley assortment of patriotic props. Goose-stepping soldiers marched in front of children waving hoops and colored handkerchiefs. Leftover U.S.-made armored personnel carriers followed rumbling Soviet-built T-54 tanks. Roller skaters mingled with medal-bedecked veterans, motorcyclists, and workers bearing a picture of Ho Chi Minh hoisting barbells above a legend that exhorted, LET EVERYONE DO EXERCISES IN THE MORNING...
Part of the secret of his success is that his eclecticism creates surface expectations of major art (complexity, depth, psychic intensity and so on) without discharging them in explicit meanings. He wittily exploits the affinity between artist and charlatan. A symbolist with roller skates, he moves very quickly across a vast terrain of appropriated motifs, and the results are usually banal. Even in today's morass of worthless "personal" imagery, it would be hard to find a sillier painting than one in the Castelli show of a green whirlpool a la Poe with a man and his separated genitals disappearing...