Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pagoda. Between March and September, U.S. amusement parks and theme attractions will have lured 235 million visitors through the turnstiles (average admission: $10) for a robust brand of professional patriotism. During the show at Florida Cypress Gardens, 30 miles from Disney World, a stunt man gliding high above the crowd effuses, "One thing I can see from here--or from any height--is that America sure is beautiful...
...keep her." But it is a thrill to see a 4,000-lb. killer whale balance a human on its nose, or pirouette on point, or just swim protectively with its new offspring, the 8 1/2-month-old Baby Shamu. Several ^ times a day, a child is selected from the crowd to be kissed by Shamu. At one show, the little girl of the day was asked her name. "Erin." "And where are you from, Erin?" "Holiday...
...imitation- Aztec Mexican pavilion. (Average "life-span" of a piece of street trash before being removed: 4 min.) During the Magic Kingdom's afternoon parade of Disney characters, a sanitation man in old-fashioned vest and black pants materializes to scoop up some horse dung. When the crowd cheers him, he doffs his hat and salutes...
Last spring, in Stevens Point, Wis., the BoDeans commanded a crowd of four, but when their album was released a year later, they filled up 1,200 seats at a theater in Milwaukee. If the word is spreading a little slowly past the borders of Wisconsin--"For the next six months they'll have to work their tails off on the road to build some name awareness," says their record- company president, Bob Biggs--the BoDeans are built for the long haul. It wasn't so long ago, after all, that Neumann and his buddy Sammy Llanas (a.k.a. Sammy BoDean...
While the pop performers entertained the crowd of some 25,000, the condition of many radiation victims worsened. Dr. Robert Gale, the UCLA bone-marrow specialist who has been assisting Soviet doctors in Moscow, reported that the death toll from Chernobyl had reached 23. Twenty-one of the dead were among the 299 fire fighters and plant workers who had been hospitalized after the accident. At Moscow's Hospital No. 6, where most of the gravely ill are undergoing treatment, Chief Radiologist Angelina Guskova told the Soviet news agency Novosti that as many as 80 victims remained in "extreme danger...