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And I thought about being launched off the horse and all the other stuff that happened that same year--the time I fell out of a tree in my neighbor's yard, the time I fell 20 feet from a hay loft and landed unhurt on a barn floor covered with straw; the time I wrecked a minibike or fell into a ravine after trying to swing one-handed on a tree vine, like I'd just seen Johnny Weismuller do in a Tarzan movie.
This reliance on the success of one or two films is unique to MGM and to this year--the studio should have a full slate again in 1998--but it does epitomize the industry's new dependence on blockbusters.
Is it the fondness for executions--half of the nation's last year--the Civil War, the border patrol, the oxymoronic phrase "compassionate conservatism," the sweaty midnight memories of the Bush-Quayle administration, that paunch on John Wayne in The Alamo ? Is it just metropolitan prejudice, the Southern thing but with cattle?
The Post reports that Dade County, Florida, passed an ordinance last year--the first of its kind in the country--requiring businesses with more than 100 parking spaces to provide at least two spots for "stroller parking."
Live artillery shells, a dead sea turtle half the size of a Volkswagen Bettle, a drowned giraffe, antique crockery, pocketbooks, chemical sludge, raw sewage and about 5,000 cords of driftwood a year--the waters of New York Harbor yield a strage and eclectic bounty.