Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that artful contradiction, Disney reality? For this is Disney's Animal Kingdom, the spectacular, instructive, $800 million new species of theme park that will open next week, surrounded by the usual ballyhoo and, for Disney, the usual naysayers and pickets (see box). "We're in the magic business," says chairman and CEO Michael Eisner, "and this park is all about magic and illusion...
...magic of numbers, the illusion of intimacy. More exotic creatures are on display in the 20-min. safari ride than would likely be seen on a week's trek through Africa: okapis, nyalas, zebras, giraffes, ostriches, Thompson gazelles, hippos and a quintet of eland that your driver must stop for as they cross the bumpy road. And thanks to feeding stations hidden in tree bogs, the animals will usually be grazing in view. Thus Animal Kingdom solves the dilemma of the modern zoo: how to keep animals out of cages but still on more or less predictable display...
...acres, Animal Kingdom, fourth of the Walt Disney World parks--after Magic Kingdom (opened 1971), EPCOT Center (1982) and Disney-MGM (1989)--is the biggest. The company hired 2,800 workers to build the park and 2,500 "cast members" (performing employees) to entertain and instruct all the visitors. As many as 10 million are expected the first year...
...become the country's most famous crusader for the protection of the Amazon rain forest, had been murdered by furious Brazilian landowners. Martyrdom can help fulfill a life's mission, and that was true for Mendes: his death electrified a generation of young Brazilians, who found both magic and meaning in his seductive brand of environmentalism...
...Magic at Celtics, FSNE...