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...movie, knows that sweet-faced youth (Timothy Bottoms) lurking around the wide screen has got more on his mind than cotton candy. He is a highly intelligent psychopath who gets at least as much fun out of making the cops look like fools as he does out of making thrill rides even more thrilling than they were intended to be. It is only a matter of time-too much time, as things turn out-before he is apprehended...
TEXAS. Six Flags Over Texas, a 20-min. drive from the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, was founded in 1961 as the first regional theme park celebrating local history. It has been expanding ever since, will welcome its 30 millionth visitor this week, and is big on thrill rides, puppet-people-picture shows, musical revues and top-name concerts. From Dallas (an amusement park in itself), visitors can go on to Houston's Astroworld, which specializes in thrill rides...
...some, the motivation is simpler. Two years after he crossed the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh took a spin on the Coney Island Cyclone, one of the oldest roller coasters still in operation (it is celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer). Later, he testified: "A ride on Cyclone is a greater thrill speed." After half a century, the thrill -and the terror-of the Cyclone and its more modern counterparts has not diminished...
...today's public seems to accept today's tenors, Italian and otherwise. Pavarotti and Domingo thrill audiences the world over with what once would be considered dull singing, a trend that confirms my suspicion of a steady decline in operatic sensibilities. This decline may have started at roughly the same time that Opera began to die as an art form: something which occurred after the death of Puccini and before that of Benjamin Britten. We are now an artistically starved audience, looking at the operatic stage not as an expression of contemporary life, but as a musical museum, where singers...
EASTER WEEK, 1916, brought a revolution to Ireland and a genuine thrill to "Irish America." As Dublin's incurable romantics proclaimed their Irish Republic, Brooklyn's irrepressible Irishmen set the tone for a generation of immigrants by cheering on the show. It was a time when Irish-Americans were only slightly more respectable than grave robbers, but no one seemed to care: more green-and-gold Irish Republican flags draped the Brooklyn waterfront, and news of the Easter Rebellion even eclipsed the Dodgers' daily dispatches from Ebbets Field. All around the country Irish communities staged a week-long ethnic festival...