References in Popular Culture
The Parachute Jump inspired an Erector Set design, first available in 1940 and revised in 1948.
The Parachute Jump has been seen in many feature films, starting with Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 1941 (set in the World's Fair). It also was featured heavily in the Oscar-nominated Little Fugitive (1953). Much later it appeared in 2000's Requiem for a Dream, 2002's Two Weeks Notice and the 1998 Spike Lee movie He Got Game. It can also be seen on the back of Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual album.
In October 1962, Strange Tales comic magazine's issue #101 featured the Human Torch fighting an attack on a fictional ride strongly reminiscent of the Parachute Jump.
It is featured on the cover of Type O Negative's Least Worst Of album.
In one of the scenes of the musical Sweet Charity, Charity and Oscar get trapped on the ride.
Videogame Grand Theft Auto IV includes the parachute jump in its representation of NYC, Liberty City.
The American rock band Deftones had a promo photo shot for their album Diamond Eyes with the Parachute Jump far in the background.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth. But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”
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“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than as a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.”
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