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...know you from somewhere? she asked. Sammy giggled. Rick talked to her about dancing. Rick did not dance. You have to try, said the dancer. You have to try everything. Sammy and Rick looked at each other. They looked down the boardwalk, past the electric skateboards, past the nude roller skaters and the Swede who juggled machetes. God, thought Sammy. He felt hungry so they bought cotton candy, chocolate chip cookies and papaya juice. On the beach, a bearded vendor offered a backrub to anyone who bought his bagels. I would like to try tightrope walking, said Rick as they...
...them with a wildly debonair angling, self-assured, and then, as the course got straighter and rougher, he bounced several times violently for an instant as if he had lost everything, his limbs doing minute, chaotic leaps-roughly the effect of a man being electrocuted while descending on a roller coaster. Once or twice his ski tips flipped up anarchically for a nanosecond in the direction of his nose. With his strong, gyroscopic instincts, Stock disciplined those little apocalypses and hurtled on, his body tucked into a bullet, a jaunty and maniacal capsule rocketing down the mountainside...
This sort of court behavior, also indulged in by John McEnroe and Hie Nastase, is what kindergarten teachers call "age inappropriate." It is punk tennis, the transformation of a formerly pristine game into the moral equivalent of roller derby. The spectacle is symptomatic of something that has befallen the American's idea of how one ought to behave. What would once have been intolerable and impermissible public conduct has now become commonplace. If it is not exactly accepted, then at least it is abjectly and wearily endured...
...coast on his past achievements, Richard Rodriguez, 22, was riding high last week on the Florida Hurricane near Orlando. He already held four Guinness world records for roller-coaster riding, his first at age 18 with 104 hours aboard Coney Island's celebrated Cyclone. Now he was out for his fifth, this time on the Hurricane, which climbs and plunges along a 3,500 ft. course for two minutes at speeds of up to 60 m.p.h...
...public television stations, CTW now applies its zingy production style to a more complex and elusive subject: science. The series of 30-min. shows, with the space-age title 3-2-1 Contact, provides glimpses of everything from leaping lizards and killer whales to computers that talk and roller coasters that whip their riders upside down...