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...Real-world beneath the podium to the Magic Kingdom: the Bear Jamboree plunks and toots, holographic phantoms squeak and gibber among the cobwebs of the Haunted Mansion, and in the antechamber of the Moon Rocket in Tomorrowland, a robot scientist holds a conversation with a scarcely less robotic Disney World hostess...
...through these latitudes that Ponce de León stumbled in 1513, seeking the fountain of perpetual youth. It was not there. Now it is. The Walt Disney World coat of arms-a terrestrial globe wearing Mickey ears, set in a capital D-is no metaphor but a frank statement of intention. The place is the last example of idealized, high-despotic city planning, a rich hick cousin of all the imaginary and perfect townships that architects from Filarete in the 15th century to Boullée in the 18th wrought from their schematic, authoritarian fantasies but never managed...
Near Orlando, Fla., a grove owner sold 30 acres of land 15 miles from Disney World last spring for $285,000. Two weeks later the buyer resold it for $375,000. One week later a subdivision developer bought it for $525,000. Several months later the developer turned down an offer of $750,000 for the property, upon which he is now constructing apartments...
...bayside in Osterville $30,000 per ½ acre Martha's Vineyard, Mass. on Vineyard Sound $104,000 per acre (with 300 ft. frontage) Island Pond, Vt. 16 miles from Canadian border $150 per acre Long Island's north shore, non-waterfront lots $12,000 per acre Disney World, Fla., on swampy southern fringe $900 per acre Disney World, north on Lake Hancock Road $4,000 per acre Sundance ski resort, 60 miles from Salt Lake City $10,000-$13,000 per acre Lakeway resort community, near Austin, Texas $25,000-$70,000 per ⅓-to ½ acre Palm...
...impossibility of rendering its accents and dialects into Italian, was the star of the show. The film was generally overpraised in the United States: critics seemed taken for some reason with the idea of using cartoons of people instead of animals, apparently viewing it as an advance over Walt Disney. But few of the technical tricks come up to the level of Fritz the Cat, Bakshi's earlier effort, which demonstrated the possibilities of x-rated animation with such scenes as, to choose one, a fight in a bar viewed from the pocket of the pool table...