Word: diorama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...papers in headlines like BANANA SPLIT or GOING BANANAS. But Clark Davis isn't laughing. One day the quality-assurance engineer was contentedly playing in the basement of his Wexford, Pa., home with his N-gauge model railroad--three lines spread over 36 sq. ft. of diorama, styled after turn-of-the-century Europe. The next day, Davis, 66, heard from his supplier of German-made Fleischman engines that not only could the price be doubling but the supplier's hobby shop might even be put out of business. All because the U.S. wants to punish Europe for discriminating against...
...been cherry-picked from among the wilder theories flitting through the UFO community. Its perspective is offered by John Price, founder of Roswell's UFO Enigma Museum, which began in 1988 in the back of his video store and today sprawls through four big rooms and features a homemade diorama of a crashed saucer with blinking lights, surrounded by four dead-alien dolls and a stuffed, seemingly unconcerned jackrabbit. Says Price: "The old sci-fi films were just kind of made up from someone's imagination. But The X-Files calls us every once in a while for information...
That's Disneyland and Disney World and Disney everything. I know. I am an expert on Disney. I've done Catastrophe Canyon five times and can recall every diorama of the Great Movie Ride in order. I've seen it all in the company of my son, age 9, who loved every innocent, campy, vulgar...
...here's where Malikah Jamillah Sherman of scenic Staten Island put distance between herself and the pack. Malikah built a three-dimensional city--sort of like a diorama but not really--out of colorful construction paper. On the roof of each building, she wrote a word or two describing a social problem that would not exist in her perfect world. Additional sheets of construction paper were put to good use in the compilation of a booklet about her best-of-all-possible-worlds metropolis. One judge was delighted to discover the paper town's dual use as a crown: during...