Holiday World's sudden loss

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As a young man, Will Koch set his sights on a serious business. Computer-science and engineering degrees in hand from the universities of Notre Dame and Southern California, he moved to Los Angeles to take a job designing weapons systems for a defense contractor.But it wasn't long before Koch, known for his "goofy" laugh as well as his brains, returned to his rural Southern Indiana home to take over the family business, an obscure amusement park in a town called Santa Claus.
There, at Holiday World, he found fulfillment and success, over the next two decades helping to design rides, tripling the number of visitors and winning worldwide acclaim among roller-coaster enthusiasts.Koch died unexpectedly this week at the age of 48. He had suffered from Type I diabetes since the 1980s, said Paula Werne, Holiday World's longtime spokeswoman. Koch's wife and children found him late Sunday upon returning from Louisville, Ky., where they'd watched a movie.On Monday, the amusement park bustled as usual and Pat Koch greeted guests, as she often does, despite her son's death only hours earlier.William Albert Koch Jr., was a descendant of a prominent Southern Indiana family whose 19th-century metal shop grew into a major installer of painting systems in factories worldwide.Koch was the third generation to lead Holiday World, which was founded in 1946 by his grandfather as Santa Claus Land, one of the nation's first theme parks. (Disneyland came nine years later.) The name was changed to Holiday World in 1984.After taking over the enterprise in 1990, Koch quickly set about expanding it, adding new rides and attractions. He built a water park, Splashin' Safari, which soon was outdrawing the older rides.In 1995, Koch attracted international attention with the Raven, a wooden roller coaster he helped design in harmony with the area's rolling, wooded terrain."Will hated to cut down a tree," Werne said.The Raven "wasn't the largest roller coaster, but it was fresh," said Tim Baldwin, of the trade journal Amusement Today.

Andrew Sarris Harshes on 'Casino Royale' and 'Barefoot in the Park

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"CASINO ROYALE" is said to be doing spectacular business despite moderately unfavorable reviews. Most of the proceedings were too esoteric for this reviewer. At times, it seemed that the only joke in the film was the impunity with which the name of James Bond was bandied about. Bond is more than a sociological artifact: he is a fiduciary property. And it's funny to see more than one set of producers with their claws in him. As funny as Johnny Carson regaling his studio audiences with jokes about his successful raid on NBC. Or Jackie Gleason being expansive about his stature in Miami. People seem to laugh at these things nowadays without the slightest trace of resentment. Power, success, money, even conceitedness seem to be their own justification. Dean Martin doesn't make five million a year because he's great. He's great because he makes five million a year. This public attitude can be attributed partly to the low-pressure realism of television, and partly to an ominous swing to the right.
Popular complicity with power and success tends to stifle feelings of injustice. If Bond and Carson and Gleason and Martin deserve to be where they are, then Negroes and migrant farm workers and poor people generally are somehow to blame for their own plight. Not that America has ever been an egalitarian society. It is just that I can't think of a folk hero in human history with fewer redeeming qualities than James Bond. He's not even a human being, but just a department store dummy going bang-bang. And he is beyond criticism or spoofing.
"Casino Royale" tries to capitalize both on the James Bond name and the "What's New, Pussycat?" art nouveau nuttiness. I liked "Pussycat," but I don't like "Casino Royale," particularly when John Huston is flaunting the hardened arteries of David Niven and Deborah Kerr in a Scottish castle. Things pick up a little bit when Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, and Woody Allen stumble into the scene, but the total experience remains boringly incoherent. Also, this is one of the most sexless movies ever made. Of course, this reviewer is too wise in the ways of brainwashing to believe that any of his readers will believe him. So see it for yourself, but don't blame me, like the song says.
"BAREFOOT IN THE PARK" (at the Radio City Music Hall) contains a good opening sequence that was not in the play. Jane Fonda and Robert Redford make an attractively sexy couple of newlyweds. Mildred Natwick delivers two funny lines. Charles Boyer is miscast as a grotesque continental type. Gene Saks directs his first film so clumsily that he even muffs Mike Nichol's exploitation of the climbing the stairs gag that kept Neil Simon's feeble farce running for 79 years on Broadway. The movie is full of physical details that I found impossible to believe. The skylight, for example, with the hole in it.Over a bed during the winter snowstorm. The hero lies there with the snow coming down. Anything for a laugh. As for the hero walking barefoot in the park to prove that he is not a stuffed shirt, let us just say that this kind of Broadway philosophizing is a quaint sample of pre-hippie humor...

World's best theme Park

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Amusement park or Theme park is the general word for a compilation of rides and other amusement attractions assemble for the purpose of amusing a large collection of populace. An amusement playing field is more complicated than a easy city park or playing field, more often than not provided that attractions meant to cater to children, teenagers, and adults. A theme park is a type of enjoyment park which has been built around one or more themes, such as an American West subject matter, or Atlantis. Today, the terms amusement parks and theme parks are often used interchangeably.  Busch Gardens is a festivity of civilization both old and new—from the exquisite charm of European villages to the high-tech enthusiasm of out of this world coasters. Coaster enthusiasts who make a custom of riding the optimum and most exciting coasters in the world determination come across some of the most memorable right here similar to the 205foot, 70 mph, 90-degree drop you’ll experience on Griffon. Busch Gardens is situated in 2 seats. One is in Williamsburg, VA. And the other is in Tampa,FL.
                                                                                                                                                   
Cedar Point - It's the number-one rated enjoyment park on the earth. It is located in Sandusky, Oh. It's also the subsequent oldest amusement park in North America. With a the past dating back to 1870, the typical enjoyment park/resort on the shore of Lake Erie has seen its share of rides, roller coasters, trends and history. The park has more 15 roller coasters 68 rides than any other park in the world.


Discovery Cove in Orlando, FL. Discovery Cove is intended the way that theme parks be supposed to be, with no manifestation and unfinished go-ahead. It also represents a new breed of theme park. Only 1,000 populace are allowed at a time into the park, which is built as a series of lagoons, coral reefs, rivers and white sand beaches. The main magnetism of Discovery Cove is communication with natural world. visitors can swim and play with bottlenose dolphins, snorkel through coral reefs and snorkel past 4-foot-wide stingrays. In one lagoon, sharks and barracudas are kept behind a clear acrylic dividing wall so you feel as if you're swimming with them. Guests can also bound into the river and go in swimming past the park's aviary    

Holiday World's sudden loss

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As a young man, Will Koch set his sights on a serious business. Computer-science and engineering degrees in hand from the universities of Notre Dame and Southern California, he moved to Los Angeles to take a job designing weapons systems for a defense contractor.But it wasn't long before Koch, known for his "goofy" laugh as well as his brains, returned to his rural Southern Indiana home to take over the family business, an obscure amusement park in a town called Santa Claus.
There, at Holiday World, he found fulfillment and success, over the next two decades helping to design rides, tripling the number of visitors and winning worldwide acclaim among roller-coaster enthusiasts.Koch died unexpectedly this week at the age of 48. He had suffered from Type I diabetes since the 1980s, said Paula Werne, Holiday World's longtime spokeswoman. Koch's wife and children found him late Sunday upon returning from Louisville, Ky., where they'd watched a movie.On Monday, the amusement park bustled as usual and Pat Koch greeted guests, as she often does, despite her son's death only hours earlier.William Albert Koch Jr., was a descendant of a prominent Southern Indiana family whose 19th-century metal shop grew into a major installer of painting systems in factories worldwide.Koch was the third generation to lead Holiday World, which was founded in 1946 by his grandfather as Santa Claus Land, one of the nation's first theme parks. (Disneyland came nine years later.) The name was changed to Holiday World in 1984.After taking over the enterprise in 1990, Koch quickly set about expanding it, adding new rides and attractions. He built a water park, Splashin' Safari, which soon was outdrawing the older rides.In 1995, Koch attracted international attention with the Raven, a wooden roller coaster he helped design in harmony with the area's rolling, wooded terrain."Will hated to cut down a tree," Werne said.The Raven "wasn't the largest roller coaster, but it was fresh," said Tim Baldwin, of the trade journal Amusement Today.

Andrew Sarris Harshes on 'Casino Royale' and 'Barefoot in the Park

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"CASINO ROYALE" is said to be doing spectacular business despite moderately unfavorable reviews. Most of the proceedings were too esoteric for this reviewer. At times, it seemed that the only joke in the film was the impunity with which the name of James Bond was bandied about. Bond is more than a sociological artifact: he is a fiduciary property. And it's funny to see more than one set of producers with their claws in him. As funny as Johnny Carson regaling his studio audiences with jokes about his successful raid on NBC. Or Jackie Gleason being expansive about his stature in Miami. People seem to laugh at these things nowadays without the slightest trace of resentment. Power, success, money, even conceitedness seem to be their own justification. Dean Martin doesn't make five million a year because he's great. He's great because he makes five million a year. This public attitude can be attributed partly to the low-pressure realism of television, and partly to an ominous swing to the right.
Popular complicity with power and success tends to stifle feelings of injustice. If Bond and Carson and Gleason and Martin deserve to be where they are, then Negroes and migrant farm workers and poor people generally are somehow to blame for their own plight. Not that America has ever been an egalitarian society. It is just that I can't think of a folk hero in human history with fewer redeeming qualities than James Bond. He's not even a human being, but just a department store dummy going bang-bang. And he is beyond criticism or spoofing.
"Casino Royale" tries to capitalize both on the James Bond name and the "What's New, Pussycat?" art nouveau nuttiness. I liked "Pussycat," but I don't like "Casino Royale," particularly when John Huston is flaunting the hardened arteries of David Niven and Deborah Kerr in a Scottish castle. Things pick up a little bit when Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, and Woody Allen stumble into the scene, but the total experience remains boringly incoherent. Also, this is one of the most sexless movies ever made. Of course, this reviewer is too wise in the ways of brainwashing to believe that any of his readers will believe him. So see it for yourself, but don't blame me, like the song says.
"BAREFOOT IN THE PARK" (at the Radio City Music Hall) contains a good opening sequence that was not in the play. Jane Fonda and Robert Redford make an attractively sexy couple of newlyweds. Mildred Natwick delivers two funny lines. Charles Boyer is miscast as a grotesque continental type. Gene Saks directs his first film so clumsily that he even muffs Mike Nichol's exploitation of the climbing the stairs gag that kept Neil Simon's feeble farce running for 79 years on Broadway. The movie is full of physical details that I found impossible to believe. The skylight, for example, with the hole in it.Over a bed during the winter snowstorm. The hero lies there with the snow coming down. Anything for a laugh. As for the hero walking barefoot in the park to prove that he is not a stuffed shirt, let us just say that this kind of Broadway philosophizing is a quaint sample of pre-hippie humor...

World's best theme Park

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Amusement park or Theme park is the general word for a compilation of rides and other amusement attractions assemble for the purpose of amusing a large collection of populace. An amusement playing field is more complicated than a easy city park or playing field, more often than not provided that attractions meant to cater to children, teenagers, and adults. A theme park is a type of enjoyment park which has been built around one or more themes, such as an American West subject matter, or Atlantis. Today, the terms amusement parks and theme parks are often used interchangeably.  Busch Gardens is a festivity of civilization both old and new—from the exquisite charm of European villages to the high-tech enthusiasm of out of this world coasters. Coaster enthusiasts who make a custom of riding the optimum and most exciting coasters in the world determination come across some of the most memorable right here similar to the 205foot, 70 mph, 90-degree drop you’ll experience on Griffon. Busch Gardens is situated in 2 seats. One is in Williamsburg, VA. And the other is in Tampa,FL.
                                                                                                                                                   
Cedar Point - It's the number-one rated enjoyment park on the earth. It is located in Sandusky, Oh. It's also the subsequent oldest amusement park in North America. With a the past dating back to 1870, the typical enjoyment park/resort on the shore of Lake Erie has seen its share of rides, roller coasters, trends and history. The park has more 15 roller coasters 68 rides than any other park in the world.


Discovery Cove in Orlando, FL. Discovery Cove is intended the way that theme parks be supposed to be, with no manifestation and unfinished go-ahead. It also represents a new breed of theme park. Only 1,000 populace are allowed at a time into the park, which is built as a series of lagoons, coral reefs, rivers and white sand beaches. The main magnetism of Discovery Cove is communication with natural world. visitors can swim and play with bottlenose dolphins, snorkel through coral reefs and snorkel past 4-foot-wide stingrays. In one lagoon, sharks and barracudas are kept behind a clear acrylic dividing wall so you feel as if you're swimming with them. Guests can also bound into the river and go in swimming past the park's aviary    

Holiday World's sudden loss

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As a young man, Will Koch set his sights on a serious business. Computer-science and engineering degrees in hand from the universities of Notre Dame and Southern California, he moved to Los Angeles to take a job designing weapons systems for a defense contractor.But it wasn't long before Koch, known for his "goofy" laugh as well as his brains, returned to his rural Southern Indiana home to take over the family business, an obscure amusement park in a town called Santa Claus.
There, at Holiday World, he found fulfillment and success, over the next two decades helping to design rides, tripling the number of visitors and winning worldwide acclaim among roller-coaster enthusiasts.Koch died unexpectedly this week at the age of 48. He had suffered from Type I diabetes since the 1980s, said Paula Werne, Holiday World's longtime spokeswoman. Koch's wife and children found him late Sunday upon returning from Louisville, Ky., where they'd watched a movie.On Monday, the amusement park bustled as usual and Pat Koch greeted guests, as she often does, despite her son's death only hours earlier.William Albert Koch Jr., was a descendant of a prominent Southern Indiana family whose 19th-century metal shop grew into a major installer of painting systems in factories worldwide.Koch was the third generation to lead Holiday World, which was founded in 1946 by his grandfather as Santa Claus Land, one of the nation's first theme parks. (Disneyland came nine years later.) The name was changed to Holiday World in 1984.After taking over the enterprise in 1990, Koch quickly set about expanding it, adding new rides and attractions. He built a water park, Splashin' Safari, which soon was outdrawing the older rides.In 1995, Koch attracted international attention with the Raven, a wooden roller coaster he helped design in harmony with the area's rolling, wooded terrain."Will hated to cut down a tree," Werne said.The Raven "wasn't the largest roller coaster, but it was fresh," said Tim Baldwin, of the trade journal Amusement Today.