Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff cafeteria is immaculate, lit with fluorescence and perked up by leaf-green supergraphics. Four dwarfs and a brown nylon-shag bear stand at the counter, ordering chipped beef. Their human faces, pinheads emerging from their neck-holes, look tiny, naked and grumpy. Across a wide cinder-block corridor whose ceiling is wreathed like a battleship's with gas pipes and power mains, more ducks and mice are disappearing into the mask room. REMOVE YOUR HEAD AND PLACE ON TABLE AFTER ENTERING, a notice Commands; the racks are full of familiar visages, the icons of one's childhood...
...thick cassettes slotted into a blinking steel wall, 14-track tape loops piling and swishing inside their moon-shaped Plexiglas boxes, running across the heads like sepia fettucine. Every second, millions of impulses skitter down the cables, linking the Real-world beneath the podium to the Magic Kingdom: the Bear Jamboree plunks and toots, holographic phantoms squeak and gibber among the cobwebs of the Haunted Mansion, and in the antechamber of the Moon Rocket in Tomorrowland, a robot scientist holds a conversation with a scarcely less robotic Disney World hostess...
...means the same thing as art. The shows and puppetry at Disney World, like the recent Disney films, are quite without power to stimulate the imagination. The old symbolism of Carnival is lost and buried; Disney cleaned it up, and in the process illuminated a law that might well bear his name-that when illusion becomes too perfect, one loses interest and instead focuses on the backstage machinery. The real magic of the Magic Kingdom is everything a paying visitor doesn't see: the stupendous technology behind these dinky scaled-down Main Street façades, artificial lakes...
Many economists and businessmen stress a third reason for shortages: price controls. Critics charge that by preventing companies from raising prices of finished products as high as the market will bear, the controls have also made it impossible for American industrialists to pay the high prices that such materials as copper, cotton, wool, lumber and chemicals now command on world markets. Inevitably, the goods are being carried off by foreign buyers, especially the Japanese. ("The Japanese have bought up every pound of wool in the world!" a New York buyer hyperbolically exclaims.) Says Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME...
...other things that were going on, are quite acceptable--but lifted out of context, could be used in all sorts of very grossly misleading ways damaging to him, damaging to a lot of other people, and very damaging to an understanding of what was going on. Also bear in mind that, fairly candidly, we are in a climate in which, if a way could be found to use it against him, it would be--whether honestly...