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...glistening Art Deco terminal in Port Canaveral on Florida's Atlantic Coast, is all about spending, not saving. It is one of four billion-dollar investments that the company has mapped out. (The others: Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom, a new California park and a bigger Tokyo Disneyland.) Four years in the making and four months late in the sailing--due to shipyard glitches and the Disney perfectionism that drives subcontractors nuts--the Magic is a down payment on Disney's ambition to dominate every form of entertainment. Suave and bustling, it's a $350 million floating theme park...
...also a Deco dream--a svelte, elegant evocation of the Normandie and other ships from the misty past. As Walt's Disneyland created a Main Street that was homogenized from some small-town, never-never ideal, Michael's Magic reimagines the swank of transatlantic liners. The cabins, larger than those on competing lines, are handsomely appointed, with burled-wood paneling and dressers shaped like steamer trunks. Don't bother trying to pick up that silver-plated knickknack in a stateroom niche; it's glued to the shelf...
Part of the drama is in the antidrama, the visual geniality of Seahaven. It's a Disneyland dream of cheer and rectitude. The film's light is soothing, beckoning--a near life experience. Its cool glow is so infusive you may feel you're getting a gentle tan as you watch the film. This could be a spiffy updating of TV's first great Springfield--the setting for that archetypal '50s idyll Father Knows Best--rather than the wildly twisted suburbia of Homer Simpson or the Armageddon-arsenal Springfield of Kip Kinkel. The only weapon flaunted in The Truman Show...
Could it be that people today just don't care about the future? That's what Tony Baxter, the "Imagineer" who oversees Disneyland design, seems to be getting at when he discusses Tomorrowland's overhaul. Baxter talks at length of the need for the park to make "an emotional connect" with visitors, to draw on prevailing cultural myths. "Dreams about the future were very easy to tap into in the '50s," he says. "There were so many challenges left unrealized because of the Depression and World War II--there was a lot left to dream about." The promise...
...lackadaisical treatment of this case by the FSSC reflects poorly on HBS. As an executive training arena and at times playground, its campus manicured like a colonial Disneyland, the seriousness of its students and now its status as an open and psychologically safe place to study may be called into question. The FSSC should learn from their mistake: sexual harassment cases must be treated with a proper degree of seriousness...