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...book and the movie, which stars Sam Neill and Laura Dern, are essentially theme-park rides -- say, EPCOT Center's Universe of Energy, the one with the Audio-Animatronic dinosaurs -- which Crichton has given a cunning tweak. The novel is also a dark musing on the hubris that can infect science and capitalism in the heady, dicey enterprise of cloning DNA. The biotechnologist thinks he is God; the businessman dreams he is Croesus...
...three-story building also bears little resemblance to a highwayside Micky D's. Surrounded by what looks like an ad for Epcot Center with its stereotypical depictions of various nationalities on the walls, Moscow McDonald's is air-conditioned and continually mopped by hordes of employees. Hordes. They probably want to show good customer service...
...gargantuan Mall of America, opening in Bloomington, Minn., this week, will pass even Disney World to become the hottest vacation destination in the U.S. They expect 40 million visits in 1996. Besides its own amusement park, the mall will feature a Hormel cookout area -- SpamLand? -- and (move over, Epcot!) the LEGO Imagination Center, a 5,000-sq.-ft. room of giant LEGO models. Sorry, kids, you can't build this stuff at home...
...TOUR BOOKS describe Old Quebec as a colonial town. But this is not an old town, or even a rebuilt one. It's as artificial as the global villages in Epcot Center. Everything in Old Quebec is made of plastic, somebody's idea of what an old European town would have been like if Walt Disney had been around to design...
...would seem that the functions of a Corporate Treasury Department would have little in common with producing The Little Mermaid, Tokyo Disneyland or The Experimental Prototypical Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT...