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...through the English countryside. And then word comes from the Associated Press: George and his wife deny the rumors once again. Though ostensibly as haggard and thin as ever, George is reputedly healthy and active. Tuesday: my plane touches down at Logan Airport. Wednesday: back to work. The roller coaster comes to a stop—or does...
...where, in the nation’s most competitive restaurant market, I could (and should) eat. The New York Times introduced me to the city’s free offerings: the free movies in Bryant Park, the Summerstage concerts in Central Park, the book readings, the poetry slams, the roller skating rink. While exploring these options, I learned more. The admission fee at the Metropolitan Museum is only a suggestion. The sculpture garden on its roof is one of the best (and most accessible) views in Manhattan. And when you want tickets to Tom Stoppard?...
...Twenty is an impressive gate, through which one passes from one country to another. It was such a crossing for me. Behind me lay the squalid hormonal shambles of adolescence-which I remember as a roller coaster through a haunted house, myself as a skinny kid riding at breakneck speed through a heritage of bad dreams, my wildly careering, breakaway energies slamming against seemingly interminable captivity in the hands of my parents' obsessions, parents' errors, parents' judgments.... and in the hands, as well, of my own ardent and melodramatic ignorance of the world, and of what I was, or might...
...numbers, the biggest, baddest, thrilling-est roller coaster in North America is "Superman: The Escape" at Six Flags Magic Mountain - 415 feet high with a 328-foot drop and cars that travel as close as roller coasters get to a speeding bullet: 100 miles per hour. Behemoths like that get built for a reason - that's how park-goers want it, and a real headliner roller coaster, though it may take $20 million to build, can make a park into a financial success by drawing beer-and-bravado-laced teens from miles around...
...Park operators credit those big, bad, headliner roller coaster with some of that - 50 new coasters opened in 2000, most of them the so-called "hypercoasters," standing more than 200 feet tall. Most people board the ride to get the daylights scared out of them, and they usually don't think too much about mundane details like engineering or loose bolts. (After all, that last group that just got off looked pretty happy, if woozy...