I was way beyond that kind of amusement.
But having your own affinities spelled out and even dramatized has become another kind of amusement.
One is tempted to skim, or read them for a different kind of amusement.
Mr. Levine said officials from Tivoli Gardens had not visited Governors Island or offered a proposal detailing the kind of amusement park they might build there.
Generally speaking, the Englishwoman has a suitable dress for every kind of amusement, but as far as bathing goes nothing is too slipshod, nothing too greatly lacking in taste.
In 1963, the academic Edwin R Schoell wrote: "There is, particularly in professional quarters, a deep-rooted suspicion that amateur theatre is really an institution that exists in order to give significance to 'amateur dramatics', a frivolous kind of amusement with no pretention to art". Attitudes seem to have changed.
They're headlining the first day of a weekend mini-festival at Fantasy Island, which turns out to be a patch of waste ground behind the parking lot of the Borgata casino resort, with Budweiser tents and the kind of amusement stalls where you throw a ball at a target to send a girl in a bikini tumbling into a tank of water.
But it may be that "the movies" now refers more to the experience than the thing you go there to watch, a kind of amusement park for the eyes and ears. .
The work borrows from the imagery of iOS and Android games, the kind of amusements subway commuters might busy themselves playing on their smartphones: "Bust-a-Move," "Breakout," pachinko and "Luxor". In an interview, Mr. Robak, 29, called the work a self-portrait, each game eliciting a certain emotion.
Researchers at I.B.M. are devising samples of the kinds of amusements that Artificial Passenger could have in its repertory, he said, for instance, a game to hone the driver's ear for musical pitch.
Most regard their time with a kind of resigned amusement.
