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...used Kyoto -- either the temple or a tiny apartment in the ancient city -- as a base camp for his forays around Japan and into the Himalayas. Iyer's trips have provided grist for a book in progress and recent TIME stories on the Dalai Lama and Tokyo Disneyland. "I try to catch the inner stirrings of a country," he says. "Over the past year I observed the summer solstice in Iceland, attended the Wimbledon tennis matches and went to Cuba for Carnaval." Iyer, 31, can focus his attention on something as small as the comma, the subject of his essay...
Seeking to cash in on the rising interest in seeing America, U.S. promoters are making direct appeals to potential customers abroad. Londoners have seen 30-second TV spots sponsored by the California office of tourism in which British TV Personality Denis Norden touts the merits of Hollywood, Disneyland and Fisherman's Wharf. "The Golden Gate is red," Norden intones while the majestic San Francisco bridge flickers onscreen, giving way to a stand of trees. "Giant redwoods are green." Europeans who want brochures on Disney World and other attractions in Florida can now write directly to a British address...
...Palais des Festivals. But the yacht's ceilings were too low to accommodate his 6-ft. 4-in. frame, even when he stooped, and Hollywood's most statesmanlike hunk endured a week's worth of cricked neck. Such are the sacrifices that art exacts in a Cote d'Azur Disneyland...
...most dramatic innovation was the theme park, a spiffy, sanitized version of the old amusement park. Disneyland, and later Walt Disney World, were dazzling essays in salesmanship. The rides (such as Peter Pan's Flight and Snow White's Scary Adventures) promoted the films. The Disney characters strolling through the parks served as free commercials for the Mickey Mouse back scratchers, Goofy bikinis, "Totally Minnie" fashions and Donald Duck notepaper (with the warning READ MY LIPS) on sale in the parks' stores. And in creating roller-coaster rides with a story line, Disney helped shape the course of movie narratives...
...pants, and a mouse named Minnie "with lipstick and eyelashes and a dress with high-heeled shoes; a mouse, ten times bigger than the biggest rat." This was mild stuff compared with a 1967 parody that Mad Alumnus Wallace Wood drew for Realist magazine. In the cheerfully scabrous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy," Walt's creatures behaved exactly as barnyard and woodland denizens might. Beneath dollar-sign searchlights radiating from the Magic Kingdom's castle, Goofy had his way with Minnie, Dumbo the flying elephant dumped on Donald Duck, the Seven Dwarfs besmirched Snow White en masse and Tinker Bell performed...