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...fond suspension of disbelief. In its most elaborate attraction, The Great Movie Ride, spectators enter a reproduction of Hollywood's secular cathedral, the Chinese theater, where the Casablanca piano and Dorothy's ruby slippers repose under glass. Computerized mannequins portray such stars as James Cagney, Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford. An Alien monster lurches and drools. For all its bustle, the ride refuses to enthrall. Even a beguiling stop in Munchkinland reminds the passengers that, however the technology of Disney rides has improved, the scope has not changed since the '60s. It's a Small World after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: You're Under Arrest! | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Fourteen people interviewed by a team of reporters on Ford Parkway called today's weather "great...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Going After the News | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...wanting to stand in the way of initiative, I let him lead the way. My grandparents' house backs up on an alley that leads to a commercial street, Ford Parkway. There we could find plenty of shops, a gas station and a mostly elderly clientele...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Going After the News | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...Brennan, Marshall and Blackmun are usually joined in abortion rulings by John Paul Stevens, a Gerald Ford appointee. Almost certain to be on the other side are Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White, who were the two dissenters when Roe was decided. Reagan appointees Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy never ruled on an abortion case during their years as lower- court judges, but both men are expected to favor limiting or overturning the decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Life Is It? (Roe v. Wade) | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Imagine, if you can, living someday in an America where nobody under the age of 40 can remember names like Pepsi-Cola or Ford or Howard Johnson's. Impossible! So on a drive from New York City to Washington not long ago, it seemed the most natural thing in the world to stop for lunch at the next Howard Johnson's. A hot dog and some French fries and a dish of maple-walnut ice cream. That was what one had been doing on the superhighway to Washington ever since it was built back at the dawn of the Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Reflections on 28 Flavors | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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