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...outdone, Benderson Development Co., Western's main rival in megamall retailing, is building what it touts as "the largest manufacturers' mall in the universe" near Niagara Falls. The 200-store extravaganza, scheduled to open in 1992, features a Fashion Avenue of stores of the most exclusive designers and "Epcot-like life-size video games...
...first visits I was shocked by all the slums and poverty," says George Hunnicutt, 63, great-grandson of the Confederate colony's first doctor. "So last year, when I took my grandchildren there, I decided to show them the storybook side of America. We went to Disney World, Epcot Center and Sea World...
...Crimson press said, ineffable charm, five minutes on the telephone, and an ungodly amount of good fortune landed me and my best girl two complimentary passes to EPCOT, and consequently, Captain EO, that aforementioned multi-media minotaur with the legs of Thriller and the horns of Daddy Zoetrope...
WHAT'S NOT to like about a mega-million dollar, three-dimensional, outer-space music video starring Michael Jackson, directed by Francis Coppola, sponsored by Eastman-Kodak, and being shown, constantly, from here to eternity, in the Imagination Pavillion at EPCOT Center in beautiful Lake Buena Vista, Florida...
...gridwork. What can be exhilarating and depressing about Walt Disney World is true of Captain EO: it is a triumph of the artificial, of high-tech wizardry and secondhand emotions. All of which makes EO just fine as a "total three-dimensional experience" but only the fourthbest film at Epcot. In the travelogues of China and France, and in Emil Radok's enthralling documentary about, yes, energy, the imagination is served, not dominated, by the special effects. These films evoke intense feelings for people and ideas. Isn't that what feelies should be all about...