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Organizations from Disney to the Peace Corps will also be on hand with information on summer positions...
This is not a promising premise for a book. Too many things can go wrong: Depending on how the author wishes to remember his or her childhood, the book can become either morbidly depressing or Disney-fied; the antics of a kooky bunch of losers in the army can rapidly degenerate into irritating mugging; coming-of-age stories are often excruciating excursions into nostalgia for a past and innocence that doubtless never existed...
CYBER CYCLONE: It's do-it-yourself coaster thrills on CyberSpace Mountain at DisneyQuest, the huge video arcade in Florida's Walt Disney World. Visitors design their own ride, including broken track and 360[degree] loops, then are strapped into a pitch-and-roll simulator for 90 seconds of disorienting fun. Fret not, coaster geezers: though you don't go far, you can still get motion sickness...
...ideals of community and common values, which, on first thought, might be a comforting environment in which to settle down and raise a family. But it's not real- at least not yet-and at some point the children of Celebration will have to enter the real, non-Disney world, which will most likely seem both strange and scary. Celebration is a more extreme example of what Disney has done to Times Square in New York: it uses its own cultural power and prestige to turn public spaces into cartoonish playgrounds. Disney may have changed sordid Times Square...
These invasions of public spaces show that Disney aspires to dominate more than just the world of entertainment. Their projects are a kind of corporate imperialism, with Mickey Mouse and, especially, Goofy at the helm. And if Disney keeps up its conquests, it may soon prove what a small world it is after...