Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coney Island, the Ferris Wheel, the Diving Horse--these are the roots of American entertainment. Vaudeville and midgets, the woman who dances with snakes... These were the first art forms to capture the mind--and dollars--of the working public on a massive scale...
...from upper altitudes, cold, heavy air sinks fast in compensation. You can "peg" your variometer here with no trouble at all -- i.e., rise faster than the 1,000 ft. a minute that the beeping rate-of-climb gauge will register. But great, eddying roils of turbulence called rotors wheel across the 14,000-ft. ridges of the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains, sometimes shearing the big thermals and otherwise raising hell. "It's the roughest place in the world for hang gliding," says Lee, a member of the six-man U.S. team, here with pilots from 40 other countries...
...even the institution of marriage the way a reckless driver treats a rental car. The Third Millennium may fail, but it's a signal that another generation -- angered by the deficit and bitter over retirees who got theirs while the getting was good -- is ready to take the wheel. Boomers may be in for a bumpy ride...
News executives now tend to discount the drive to be different. "We're not reinventing the wheel here," says Here & Now executive producer Jeff Zucker. "The secret is to go with what has worked." (He does, however, promise more live segments.) Andrew Lack, the new president of NBC News, contends, "The public doesn't care about format. They care about whether it's a good story...
While the authorities seemingly ignored Gasior, she was not forgotten. She says a few days after her Justice Department interview, cars mysteriously started following her. One night a car that had been shadowing her forced her off the road. The same vehicle pursued her in a wheel-screeching, hilltop chase until she got away by shutting off her lights. Then there were the constant phone calls to her home from someone who only breathed over the line, and a false newspaper report that an arrest warrant had been issued in her name. She began to fear for her life...