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...food chain, Forever Plaid uses the singers' plangent harmonics to camouflage a thin book. And you need a doctorate in Broadway shows and lore to get all the jokes in the new edition of Forbidden Broadway -- but for insiders, and good guessers, the musical malice has its own witty thrill...
...AMERICAN GAMES (ABC, Aug. 3-18). ABC Sports, shut out of the Olympics for a good while, will try to recapture the thrill of victory with more than 20 hours of coverage of the hemispheric competition, originating from Cuba...
...thrill and the problem with in-line skates is that they go much faster -- up to 30 m.p.h. -- than roller skates and are difficult to stop. Most accidents involve first timers who have had little or no instruction. And though there is good protective gear available, a majority of bladers prefer to breeze along unpadded. The most feared injuries are to the head, yet few bladers will deign to don helmets. "They're hot inside and mess up your hair," says Neil Feineman, author of a how-to book for skaters entitled Wheel Excitement. Although he always wears a helmet...
...debate over whether the death penalty is a deterrent to crime is writ large when it comes to televising it. The horrible images, proponents say, would certainly give pause to potential criminals. Others contend that the gruesome thrill of watching a state-sanctioned murder could, in some twisted way, make all murder seem more acceptable. "There is evidence that immediately following an execution, violence increases," says Martin Rosenthal of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School. "It puts out the subliminal message that the solution is violence." Inside San Quentin, authorities are concerned that other death-row inmates...
Call it a thrill, or call it crazy. Just don't call bungee jumping illegal -- that is, if the right kind of platform is involved. For years determined aerialists risked arrest by hurling themselves off bridges. Then a few discovered cranes, which are perfectly legal but hard to find. Now in Colorado bungee jumping is readily accessible. Leapers of faith can visit Clear Creek County, where officials have approved a 140-ft.-high bungee-jumping tower on public land 30 miles west of Denver. A county over, in Fort Lupton, the Federal Aviation Administration is expected this week to certify...