Rides On The Wild Side

April, 1981

I'm not really a very big fan of the so-called thrill rides whose main aim seems to me to be to encourage people to throw up, but I'm obviously a member of a very small minority. Higher, faster, more terrifying amusement-park attractions are packin' 'em in all over the United States, and there are huge groups of people who get their kicks from surviving multiple confrontations with these mechanical monsters. As might be expected, sheer drops, 360-degree circles and convolutions that would give c...