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Collecting music is not rare. Most people have a favorite band; they head over to Tower on the day the new CD comes out and own every album the group has ever released (including the double-live album with terrible sound quality, no new songs and lengthy periods of applause that should have been left in the editing room). Some fans have more exotic tastes, though, than can be satisfied at the local overcharging music retailer. I am one such fan. Yet it is not indy rock, turn-of-the-century ragtime or even scarily popular polka that I crave?...
Like them, Disney will need exciting, new attractions to get repeat visitors. Ride enthusiasts expect soon to see a version of the Florida park's popular Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. A third separate operation, possibly a water park, may be built in several years. "Walt Disney said that Disneyland will never be finished," Rasulo says. "We've certainly emulated that here...
...House life. “It was a huge playground in a lot of ways,” she says. “The Masters’ lodgings were enormous and we had wonderful times as children exploring the steam tunnels under the University and sneaking up into the tower at night.” But for Heimert, her parents’ responsibilities as Masters often disrupted the nuclear family. “It certainly made for an odd family life,” she says. “My parents felt—rightly—that...
...shooting a documentary about a rookie fire fighter. When a call came to check out a gas odor, Jules, the less experienced cameraman of the pair, tagged along for "camera practice." He ended up shooting inside hell, racing with the fire fighters downtown and into the lobby of the tower, as debris rained outside the broken windows, workers ran for the exits, and the south tower collapsed, turning a sunny morning into a midnight snowstorm...
...lasting images are more subtle: the determined faces of the swarming fire fighters, some of whom will soon climb to their death; a sheaf of papers settling in front of Jules' lens when he's knocked flat after the tower collapses; the booted foot of F.D.N.Y chaplain Mychal Judge, which is all we see of him as fire fighters carry his body off. In 9/11, what is most disturbing is what you hear, not what you see: the Mayday! calls crackling over radios, the screams of burn victims, the sickening pops of bodies hitting the pavement outside the lobby. (There...