Word: disneyish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only real singer in the ensemble, and her voice in song had a sweetness that disappeared in the exaggerated emphasis of her speech. Her character was an obvious spinoff of the book-loving Belle of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, down to the sweet if slight, Broadway-Disneyish lyrics: "Books are better than love." Even her foils, the three brightly-clad senoritas--Lolita (Debbie Hunter '00), Rosita (Jasmin Roman '00), and Marguerita (Shannon Tracey '00)--who coo over the very name of El Bean, were clearly modeled after the three blondes who pine after macho-man Gaston...
Other pieces of Expo have altogether different ambitions; they are neither good nor bad, exactly, but something else -- Disneyish. The Saudi pavilion, a fake Arab ruin into which a fake nomadic hovel has been inserted, is like a second-rate SITE rip-off -- except that SITE actually designed it. The South Pacific pavilion is a compound of grass huts (or was -- it burned down last week, but is to be rebuilt promptly). New Zealand's conventional steel-and- glass facade gives way at one end to a rugged Pacific promontory, complete with recorded ocean noises, artificial stones and plastic seabirds...