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...fall fashion collections shown last week in New York City had a reassuring, familiar look: lots of clean-cut classics, long on style, short on thrill. But for a sagging, badly scared industry, that was headline news. What set Seventh Avenue cheering was the skirt that wasn't there: the mini, last year's sexy shocker...
...that enabled Disney to give its theme parks an immediate injection of Hollywood hipness. Enter Michael Jackson, who was recruited by Eisner to help write and star in Captain Eo, a 17-minute, $17 million movie musical in 3-D. Even more spectacular is Star Tours, a $32 million thrill ride that opened in January 1987 at Disneyland. The ride employs the technology of flight simulators, the devices used for training pilots and astronauts. Hydraulically powered, the StarSpeeder 3000 cabin shakes, rattles and rolls its 40 passengers at angles up to 35 degrees as they watch a 4 1/2-minute spaceflight...
...classic spring vacation for eligible collegiate thrill-seekers is the Florida Hedonism Extravaganza. There are three meccas of illegality to choose from--Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and Daytona Beach. Be sure to check out the world balcony-diving championships, held nightly at area hotels in each city. Harvard's break unfortunately occurs slightly after that of the rest of the uncivilized world, but there should still be numerous opportunities to have a cheap, sleazy...I mean, totally awesome break...
...would be such a thrill to perform off Broadway," Phillips said. She said she might postpone other work when she graduated this fall to perform in the show. "It's the kind of thing you only get one chance...
Happiness at the Olympics has always been a relative matter of little feelers. Eddie ("the Eagle") Edwards, the ski-jumping plasterer from England, spoke for all the Games' odd fellows when he declared, "To have jumped and still be alive -- it's a thrill." As if Edwards were the grand Finn Matti Nykanen himself, the Brit writers have claimed Eddie as their new knight of the woeful countenance (not to mention feeble eyesight and flapping elbows). What choice did they have? Out at Calgary's quaint hall for curling, the Scots were finishing last in another game they invented...