Word: disneyland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-capitalist argument, interpreting Stratten's misfortunes as an inevitable result of capitalist exploitation, would focus on the Disneyland nature of Hefner's Playboy empire (as Fosse does) and on the insatiable appetite of a capitalist society for junk food, junk movies--in short, junk values. It would also point an accusing finger at the American propensity for materializing and objectifying life; through, for example, the starmaking machinery in New York and Los Angeles, which manufactures individuals into cardboard cutouts and then expresses shock when they age, bleed...
...little farther south in Orange County, second child of teachers. His father was also something of a jokester (the name Jackson was partly inspired by a gag in a Crosby-Hope-Lamour Road excursion) and a reasonably hot Dixieland jazz player. Orange County, most renowned as the seat of Disneyland and a stronghold of the John Birch Society, got Browne going-away. He was playing local hoote-nannies by his late teens. Before he was 20, he was off to New York accompanying Nico, Andy Warhol's rock wraith. By his mid-20s he had one hit single, three...
...bunny and the mouse have more than just prominent ears in common. Playboy equals naughty adult fun; Disney, whole some kid fun. Disney and Playboy are both purveyors of fantasy: Playboy makes real women seem unreal; Disney makes unreal adventures seem real. The Playboy mansion is a sort of Disneyland for adults; Disneyland is the Playboy mansion for kids...
...Hirohito finally visited the U.S. Over 15 days, the Emperor traveled from Williamsburg to Hawaii, attending a professional football game, meeting John Wayne and delightedly visiting the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. For years after his trip to Disneyland he sported a Mickey Mouse wristwatch...
Europe on $20 a Day by Arthur Frommer; Frommer/Pasmantier; $9.95. It started out as $5 a day, but times and the inflation rate have changed. Frommer, however, has not. Still the popular Baedeker of Bermuda-shorts wearers everywhere, Europe on $20 approaches the Continent as a kind of Disneyland for post-adolescents, and brims with a wide-eyed sense of wonder. But after one too many meals in department-store cafeterias, one too many Dickensian bed-and-breakfasts and one too many afternoons of hauling dirty laundry around Zurich in a vain search for the cheap laundromats that Frommer assures...