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...childhood—except they are a whole lot shorter than you remembered. She later titillates with the most revealing girl-scout costume you’ve ever seen. In the words of the song, which seem to capture the essence of both middle-school pubescence and this fantasyland video, “I smell sex and candy here.” And for Fergie, these are things that go together well. The song deals almost entirely with how much men want her—she’s “tasty,” “delicious...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Fergie | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

Well, that was the '90s for you. Today, with gas at $3 a gallon and the Japanese showing Detroit how to make a profit from hybrid (gas plus electric) cars, those movie idealists don't seem so silly. It was the rest of us who had our heads in fantasyland. Release date: June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Hot New Crop of Docs | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

Indeed, Harvard’s intellectual climate helped bring about Okrent’s epiphany. According to Wall Street Journal reporter Sam Walker’s recent book “Fantasyland,” an authoritative dissection of what he appropriately calls “baseball’s lunatic fringe,” the first form of Rotisserie baseball began at Harvard way back in 1960. Bill Gamson, a research associate in social psychology at the Harvard School of Public Health, invented the “Baseball Seminar,” a precursor to today?...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: .45 CALEBER: Appeal of Rotisserie Baseball Academic | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

...reason that Reading Period is colloquially known as “Drinking Period,” or, in my case, “Sleeping and Playing Video Games Period.” At no other point in your life, not even at any other point during the fantasyland of college, will your sole responsibilities be a) to study for some few hours over the course of two weeks, and b) manage your fantasy sports teams. In many ways, Reading Period is the slightly punier little brother of the glorious days of Camp Harvard. These are times that should be treasured...

Author: By Andrew Kreicher, | Title: Give Me Reading Period | 12/9/2005 | See Source »

Disney made sure not to repeat those mistakes in Hong Kong. "We've come at it with an American sensibility, but we still appeal to local tastes," says John Sorenson, one of Hong Kong Disneyland's landscape architects. Fantasyland has a garden where photo-happy tourists can always find Mickey, Minnie and other popular characters. Mulan will have her own pavilion in the garden, designed like a Chinese temple. Mickey even has a new red-and-gold Chinese suit to wear. Restaurants boast local fare, such as Indian curries, Japanese sushi and Chinese mango pudding served in containers shaped like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disney's Great Leap into China | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

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