Word: disneyland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plastic white doves--with authentic features attached--are one of thousands and thousands of yuletide trinkets sold at this seven-room veritable Disneyland of the Christmas season open one month a year just 20 miles north of Cambridge. Maybe your true love would be more interested in the seven varieties of tinsel, 15 shapes and sizes of candles, or dozen-odd varieties of plastic berry and plant clusters--from assorted nuts to fir and cranberry sprays, ranging from...
...projects opens at Disney World in central Florida. Named Epcot Center, Disney's last, vast vision is a combination world's fair, theme park and dream factory executed at a cost to date of $900 million. Like the Magic Kingdom at Disney World and California's Disneyland, it is destined to become a part of the American experience, but with a difference. Unlike its predecessors, Epcot is aimed primarily at grownups. There are no Mickey Mouselings on the streets. Wine, beer and whisky flow, as they do not at other Disney theme parks. Epcot offers serious cuisine...
...profitmaker that Uncle Walt bequeathed. Disney films have flopped almost without exception since Mary Poppins in 1964; the organization's celluloid bid for adult acceptance, TRON, has yet to recoup its $22 million expenditure. The recession and the declining appeal of its theme parks have reduced attendance at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom. Epcot Center is expected to attract 9 million admissions its first year at a one-day price of $15. Disney strategy is to persuade guests to tarry at both Magic Kingdom (13.2 million admissions in 1981) and Epcot at a bargain four-day adult rate...
...snowdrifts are finally gone from the outfield, but only two of Harvard's starters have pitched this year anywhere north of Disneyland...
...observer of violence and injustice? He has urges to get involved, to "do something" about the war he is recording. But his self-preoccupation prevents any political action. His journey to Lebanon began as an escape from a difficult marriage, and the country remains a kind of exotic, horrific Disneyland in which he attempts to lose himself...