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Theme park? Think bigger. Mickey Mouse's custodians have spent $4.4 billion on an all-weather wonderland comprising a high-tech retro-cute amusement park, six ambitious new hotels (containing 5,200 rooms), 50 restaurants, a convention center, a campground, an 18-hole golf course and a cluster of nightclubs. They also got one big political hotfoot...
Public parks remain Kevorkian's preferred treatment centers. Adkins' suicide occurred in a rusting van parked in a campground; this time the two women were found dead in a cabin in the Bald Mountain recreation area, about 40 miles north of Detroit. Kevorkian himself called the police to report the fatalities. "The people were still hooked up to the machines when the sheriffs got there," said county sheriff sergeant Dale Romeo...
...Sweating Door Alarm moves smoothly and frequently between planes of reality. Fitch transports the audience from a strange, sickening hospital to an eerie campground in a Southwestern canyon. Soon the campground is overrun with Indians who dance wildly around a TV set/campfire, taking the viewer farther and farther from reality. The transitions from scene to scene are always surprising and often funny. Although simple curiosity about what will come next sustains a lively interest in a play, The Sweating Door Alarm offers much more...
...orchestrating its usual mix of hoopla and down-home family fun. Euro Disneyland will feature an amusement park with 29 attractions, and six hotels with 5,200 rooms designed by such top architects as Michael Graves and Robert A.M. Stern. There will also be a 138-acre Davy Crockett campground and an 18-hole golf course, not to mention 150,000 trees sprinkled over the Disneyscape. Construction is more than halfway along. Among the park's highlights: a 60-ft.-high Swiss Family Tree House and Disney's trademark Big Thunder Mountain, a roller-coaster ride with Gold Rush...
...Scouts were dangerously out of step with post-1960s America; the public still imagined uniformed do-gooders who tie knots and help old folks across the street. One solution: the Scout Handbook was revised to show more minority scouts in action and offer advice on such off-campground problems as AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, child abuse and how to resist sexual molesters...