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...building that is already a symbol of the center: an 18-story geosphere called Spaceship Earth. Inside they are whisked along a track to view a depiction of man's evolution in communications from cave to spaceship, glimpsing such wonders as Gutenberg's print shop, an Audio-Animatronic Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, and astronauts at work...
Radiating from Spaceship Earth are pavilions that explore other areas of technological endeavor. The World of Motion (sponsor: General Motors), nested within a wheel-shaped building, is a mostly light-hearted show with 24 Audio-Animatronic scenes depicting such momentous occasions as the invention of the wheel and the first traffic jam. The Universe of Energy (sponsored by Exxon) is a serious but compelling presentation whose three-acre roof with a partial photovoltaic surface is probably the largest privately built solar-energy collector in the world. Inside, life-size models of dinosaurs fight to the death; there is even...
...department-store electronic security system. Their problem, as in Kam's case, generally goes undetected because of inadequate testing. Most testing devices do not produce sounds above a certain frequency, Berlin says, "and it is precisely at this cutoff that ultra-audiometric patients begin hearing." Worse still, ultra-audio-metrics may lose what hearing they have if they use conventional hearing aids, says Berlin. "The aids can cause overstimulation or acoustic trauma...
...award-winning Author Richard Peck's ninth Y.A., satirizes teen class structure and cliquishness. Teresa and Barney, a pair of inner-city runaways, discover a society of boys and girls living secretly in a department store. This "Lord & Taylor of the Flies" is surrounded by specialty shops like Audio Jungle, the Tennis Connection and a place advertising CANDLES IN SHAPES YOU NEVER THOUGHT OF. There, the urban dropouts learn the value of independent thought, honest employment and all-natural fabrics. They also can identify suburbanites: "It looked like an oversized praying mantis, and it flowed like a surfer...
This shortcoming will probably disappoint those who see Hair hoping for a jolting dose of Sixties political fervor. Except for an introductory audio-visual mood-setter, the political radicalism remains muddled throughout the show and seems severely dated when it does emerge briefly. The "don't-draft-my-ass" response to corrupt foreign policy is no longer fitting or sufficient; we already know America hasn't always worn the white hat. Likewise, the drive for uniform civil rights has gone beyond merely pointing out that Blacks exist and have concerns and emotions of their...