Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...displays: banks of thick cassettes slotted into a blinking steel wall, 14-track tape loops piling and swishing inside their moon-shaped Plexiglas boxes, running across the heads like sepia fettucine. Every second, millions of impulses skitter down the cables, linking the Real-world beneath the podium to the Magic Kingdom: the Bear Jamboree plunks and toots, holographic phantoms squeak and gibber among the cobwebs of the Haunted Mansion, and in the antechamber of the Moon Rocket in Tomorrowland, a robot scientist holds a conversation with a scarcely less robotic Disney World hostess...
...French title, La Nuit Americaine, is taken from the name of a Hollywood process for shooting night-time scenes during the day, through a filter; the film is also about the relation of film reality to lived reality. The term can be taken to stand for cinema itself: the magic, dreamy darkness brought to us by Hollywood. Day for Night is dedicated to the Gish sisters, pioneers of the star system, and the film being made within the film is a cheap melodrama. There are quarrels and affairs among the actors, and nostalgic recounting of old ways of film-making...
Library planners have not adequately considered the impact of the estimated 1 million tourists who will be drawn yearly to the exhibition of Kennedy's magic and splendor displayed in the imposing library-museum. The resulting traffic and parking problems, as well as the economic metamorphosis already evident a year before the scheduled groundbreaking, are enough to suggest that the library should find a home away from this crowed area...
...child will soon figure out that Grandma and that kindly old magic computer in fact did not write the book for him-since most of the "personalizing" is confined to the repetitious use of names, addresses and birth dates, and every kid on the block with a Me-Book is doing the same dumb things in the same dumb volume. This kind of personalization is in fact just the reverse: it saps imagination and reduces individuality...
...title page carries a notice that "This book was written especially for Tommy Snooks with love and kisses from Grandma Snooks." The line below the title says, "Your personal story by the magic computer." Thereafter, in the four titles so far to be offered, Tommy and Tuggles and Snuggles, et al. do all sorts of things. Get a giraffe for a pet (My Friendly Giraffe), have a party (My Birthday Land Adventure), travel around as the representative of Santa Claus (My Special Christmas), and go to an animal fair (My Jungle Holiday...