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...kind of black Disney fantasy, one can imagine out beyond the continental shelf, where the Gulf Stream rushes, a great white shark is sulking. If it is not Russian trawlers pursuing him, then it is sportsmen bristling with electronic equipment and harpoons. The couple of times he has made it to the beach there was no one to play with. People head out of the water at the mention of his name. Is this any way to treat a star...
...real Opry has moved out of town to a Disney-like complex on the freeway. It was inaugurated, you may recall, by President Nixon a few years back. If memory serves, this was the event at which the Trick failed to negotiate properly a yo-yo he had been given by the citizenry. Anyway, things have pretty much moved out of the city except for the business district--tall buildings where everything is sheathed in structural steel. Even with all the civic pride that obviously went into these structures and the malls around them, they are a little ghostly, especially...
...spacemen themselves got along remarkably well, whether they were training in one another's simulators, attending Texas barbecues or rubbernecking at Florida's Disney World. All former military pilots (see box page 55), they soon became such good friends that they could kid one another about their language problems. The Soviets liked to joke that the mission had three official languages: Russian, English and Stafford's Oklahoma twang...
...Allen's longtime companion is saddled with Lines that make her Groucho in bombazine ("Thank you, your grubbiness"). Because she cannot generate a style of her own, Keaton soon draws attention to the film maker's weakness: his movies, populated solely with Woody Allens, are like Walt Disney's old Goofy cartoons, in which every character assumed the lineaments of the hero...
Shock and Disney...