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...MIDWEST. Near St. Louis, Six Flags Over Mid-America is a corn-belt version of its lively Texan Six-Flagship. At Gurnee, Ill., halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, is Marriott's Great America, with its ten-story-high carrousel. Not to be missed is Cedar Point, 50 miles west of Cleveland, one of the few old-style amusement parks to have made it into the theme...
...little faster- Texas style," says a proud park official. But it retains the original Cyclone's sheer drops: the first of them, a devastating 53° plunge, bottoms out 92 ft. below the crest. Riders have lost wigs and false teeth in the 60-m.p.h. near freefall. St. Louis' Six Flags boasts the Screamin' Eagle; No. 1 in the Guinness Book of World Records, it is the longest, fastest, highest coaster. Its hills are less precipitous- 45° to 50°- but it features a series of close-set hills that repeatedly , flash passengers from zero...
...producers and the grim delight of its detractors) junk food. Whatever it is called, America's infatuation with such fare is nothing new. The hot dog made its debut on these shores over a hundred years ago; a recognizable version of the modern hamburger was unveiled at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. But sophisticated new marketing and advertising techniques, computer technology and entrepreneurial zeal have whetted a nationwide hunger of apparently limitless depths...
...this time with political content: it's based on the life of American anarchist Emma Goldman. Written by another anarchist type, B.U. professor and wildman Howard Zinn. Performed by the Next Move, an anarchistic theater group (and a very good one). At the Next Move Theater, 955 Boylston St. in Boston. Curtain at 8 p.m., tickets...
...Lover is at the BAG Theater, 367 Boylston St. in Boston. More Pinter-it seems fitting to end these listings as we began. Games people play, etc., curtain at 12:10 and 1:10 p.m., tickets...