Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Disney opened Epcot Center in Orlando with "Spaceship Earth" as its centerpiece. The exhibit/ride, housed in the most famous geodesic sphere in the world, shows "dazzling scenes of life in the 21st century's Global Neighborhood depict[ing] every corner of our world drawn closer through new technologies." The ride, in true Disney-esque fashion, revisits the themes expressed in the 1950s magazines--perfect family life made easier through human advances...
...last 10 years, as 2000 has drawn closer, we have stopped dreaming about The Future. There was just too much that needed to happen before we'd be in a position to achieve the hopes we originally had for it. We aren't close to the Donna Reed 1950s Space Age ideal. In fact, Donna Reed largely doesn't exist anymore. As fewer women choose to be housewives, the need to create Rosie the Robot has ironically fallen by the wayside. Flying cars aren't anywhere near the horizon. We're just getting started with alternative automobile fuel sources like...
...think that brothers could be any closer than we are," said Dominic. "I don't think there can be anyone who understands me better than my brothers...
...could know, he said, what it meant to be 7 ft. tall. "Hell, even [jockey] Willie Shoemaker doesn't have my problem. At least everyone was his size once." Height accounted for merely part of his gianthood. I once went down to courtside at halftime to get a closer look at him. His hands were the size of easy chairs, his head, nose, eyes, everything colossal. And he was standing around with some of the biggest men on Earth...
...ought to be remembered that, as indisputably great a player as Wilt Chamberlain was, he often evoked a public awe closer to loathing than admiration. "No one roots for Goliath," he lamented to his Los Angeles Lakers teammate Jerry West. The observation was both personally felt and generally interesting in what it says about the way people look at giants. Size (which matters) is an accident of biology, but we tend to treat it as an implicit assault on the averageness of the rest of us--a potential menace, an insulting excess--and there is a universal desire...