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Word: gridwork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dessert is not very nourishing. Captain EO is sugar but no spice, coating an audio-animatronic gridwork. What can be exhilarating and depressing about Walt Disney World is true of Captain EO: it is a triumph of the artificial, of high-tech wizardry and secondhand emotions. All of which makes EO just fine as a "total three-dimensional experience" but only the fourthbest film at Epcot. In the travelogues of China and France, and in Emil Radok's enthralling documentary about, yes, energy, the imagination is served, not dominated, by the special effects. These films evoke intense feelings for people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Feelies | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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