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...understands that, or understands the deadly game he has just joined. Demonstrating that he has three dimensions and that he is serious about governing is Reagan's greatest challenge. He is a far piece from WHO and those ice cream sports jackets that Governors wear and even the fantasyland that was operating in Detroit...
...Administration and within the views of the President himself. Carter remains uncomfortable with economic issues and does not seem to trust any of his talented economic advisers. Early this year, for instance, he only half facetiously quipped that his economic advisers seem to be getting their inspiration from fantasyland...
Closer, cheaper and safer than the sleazy Mexican border town are three of the best theme parks in the West. When Walt Disney opened Disneyland at Anaheim in 1955, the idea was that his fantasyland would be "a travel destination" at which visitors would spend whole weekends or vacations. Many families still do, but Disneyland, like Florida's Disney World, has become a focal point from which holidaymakers can radiate out to other parks, beaches, authentic historical scenes and myriad recreations ranging from surfing and sailing to deep-sea fishing and ballooning. Thus a family with a week...
...their first inspection, visitors will rely on the 80-ft.-high Skyway gondola cars, or the narrow-gauge, coal-burning open-sided train that circles the area. The crowds head for the six theme areas of the Magic Kingdom amusement complex: Mam Street U.S.A., Adventureland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, Fantasyland, and the not-yet-opened Tomorrowland...
Truffaut treats this material neither as light comedy in the Lubitsch manner nor as domestic drama, but attempts to create a kind of compromise fantasyland somewhere in between. That he succeeds is a mixed blessing. In their own comic innocence, Truffaut's people owe much to the creations of William Saroyan, an author to whom Truffaut paid homage in Shoot the Piano Player. But in Saroyan there is still much pain. In Truffaut it is increasingly concealed behind a general air of slightly manic pixilation...