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They won't sell you cotton candy or popcorn, but if you want guide books or maps of Cambridge, you can pick them up at a new pink and blue Disneyland-style booth in the center of Harvard Square...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Disneyland Booth Comes to the Square | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

Funded and operated by Cambridge Discovery, a non-profit group, the Information booth first opened its windows last Monday, and volunteers were busy all week dispensing answers and tourist materials to a steady stream of Square explorers...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Disneyland Booth Comes to the Square | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

Americans like cartoons of transformation, fantasies of sudden empowerment. Popeye eats spinach. Clark Kent enters the phone booth. The 97-lb. weakling sends away for the Charles Atlas course. Shazam! The creature that a moment ago looked mortal and ordinary and vulnerable becomes a master of the universe. He can fly. Conquer evil. Get revenge. He is born again, this time as a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Body Beautiful: Pumping Ironies | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...truckers are sitting at a booth. Their faces are lined and leathery. One cap says Harley-Davidson, the other Coors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road: a City of the Mind | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...back when the truckers are nearly done. She carries a water jug and coffeepot on her tray. The men are ragging her again, and her hands tremble. The tray falls with a crash. The jug breaks. Glass, water and coffee spread across the floor. She sits down in the booth, tears rolling down her cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road: a City of the Mind | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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