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Some of the new factory-outlet centers are no longer off-the-rack spartan. In Florida, the Orlando Factory Outlet Mall, which opened last year on the road between the city and Walt Disney World, offers, in addition to the usual stores, an antique-costume portrait center, a time-share condominium sales office, a Pac-N-Send mailing service and a video-game room. Traditional retailers hope that the factory outlets will fade away with the return of better economic times. Perhaps, but in the meantime, factory outlets will continue to be today's fashion...
Unlike Alexander the Great, Walter Elias Disney never ran out of worlds to conquer. This week, nearly 16 years after his death, the most ambitious of all the great fantasist's projects opens at Disney World in central Florida. Named Epcot Center, Disney's last, vast vision is a combination world's fair, theme park and dream factory executed at a cost to date of $900 million. Like the Magic Kingdom at Disney World and California's Disneyland, it is destined to become a part of the American experience, but with a difference. Unlike its predecessors...
...While Disney's successors have clung to the founder's ugly acronym (Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), they have departed from his Utopian concept of a real-life community evolving in harmony with an ever changing and beneficent technology. What they have wrought is not the town but the adult toy of the future. Epcot is a mind-pummeling assault of electronic ingenuity, historical fact, fancy, showmanship, faith, hope...
...time. A philosophical fabulist, Gardner wrote a dozen novels (among them, Grendel, 1971; The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972; October Light, 1976) in which he examined age-old questions like freedom vs. license through the prism of a gothic imagination that he said was set working by "the world of Walt Disney. I see those Disney images everywhere-in Dante, in Homer, above all in Chaucer." In On Moral Fiction (1978) he argued fiercely for positive, inspiring writing and charged that, by contrast, "almost all modern art is tinny, commercial and immoral." Head of the creative writing program at the State University...
...quiet upstate greenery. The wall is gray gray. Nothing in nature, including a rock, could be that color. Guards say the wall goes down 30 ft. in spots so as to hold fast in the quicksand. At intervals along the flat surface, watch turrets sit with witch-hat tops; Disney World, had it been built by Albert Speer, would have this look. The wall encompasses five separate cell blocks. Inside these are individual cells, 7 ft. from floor to ceiling, 9 ft. by 6 ft. in area, in which some 2,000 men live among the possessions permitted them...