Word: disneyland
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...squares, vermilion triangles and aqua stars piled chockablock on orange scaffolds beside pink-and-black-striped cardboard columns. Professor Stanley Weingart of the U.S.C. business school says, "I keep waiting for Dumbo the elephant to fly out." It does put one in mind of an amusement park. Although not Disneyland so much as Coney Island...
...complexities, returned advance money. How can anything linear be made of sprawl, dirty air, glitz, wealth, power, celebrities, a Noah's ark of immigrants, real estate gone mad, earthquakes, brushfires, mud slides, avalanches, floods, a million or so illegal aliens, freeways, enslavement to the automobile, drive-in churches, Disneyland, outrageous poverty, oil, the Pacific Rim, living on the fault line, heart-stopping geographical beauty, to name but a few ingredients? In spots it owns a resemblance to Lagos: vines grow in the cracks. In other places, a word that comes easily to the tongue is paradise. Generalities abound...
...Arrowhead the audience of approximately 45,000 was filled with them, staring enraptured at all the whiz-bang effects. The older ones danced on their seats. The younger ones bopped around in the arms of their equally delighted parents. The night of music became a sort of day at Disneyland, and knowing Michael's much publicized doting on the works of Old Uncle Walt, this surely was part of the plan...
...dedicated to its abolition? If homosexuality is merely a "sexual preference"-if a lover's sex is as much a matter of taste as, say, hair color (or having it butter-side up or butter-side down)-then why the to-do over two men dancing together at Disneyland? But there is a fuss, because there is a difference. One can understand neither with language that refuses to make distinctions...
...designed in 1956 for the Chicago lakefront but never built. Its design is to be adapted to accommodate Domino's office needs, a move that may result not only in an anachronism but a stylistic pastiche. "I don't want to turn the place into a Disneyland," Monaghan insists. "I just want to pay tribute to the greatest master of the arts that ever lived, of all time...