Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Current plans for her work include making a live television series out of her Dragonriders of Pern books, including the Walt Disney Co. in 1969. However, McCaffrey wanted live action rather than animation, which most companies believed would be too expensive...
...campgrounds are in the wilderness, either. Las Vegas' Circus Circus casino has a campground, and Disney World has Fort Wilderness, where if visitors tire of Fantasyland, they can go canoeing and horseback riding. For some people this may be too much of a good thing. Much to the chagrin of folks like the Sutherlands, many campgrounds now have something they never had before: NO VACANCY signs...
...couple of days (he was marking the resolution of independence; we celebrate the signing of the Declaration). But regarding the guns, bonfires and illuminations, he was right on target. In typically American fashion, fireworks displays have grown passe by overuse; they embellish everything these days from baseball games to Disney movie openings. Still, there's something irresistible, and irreplaceable, about a July 4 sound-and-light show: "And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting...
...names Timon, Pumbaa, Simba or Nala don't mean anything to you, then you probably don't know people who count their age in single digits. These are names many zookeepers hear every day as children gazing at meerkats, warthogs and lion cubs recall the characters from Disney's 1994 hit The Lion King. "The popularity of these animals in the last three years has been amazing," says Greg Hudson, director of the Fort Worth (Texas) Zoo. "It's great. We can take that and educate [more kids] about the social structure of those animals...
...where the movie was set; and the Oklahoma City Zoo, which houses both meerkats and lions in its "Lion Overlook." At the San Diego Wild Animal Park's new "Heart of Africa" exhibit, guests can participate in field experiments and get up close and personal with some animals. Hurry! Disney's next hit may be Hercules, and no zoos have winged horses...