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...Disney parks of Florida and California offer squeaky-clean visions of a perfect society, the Disneyland that flourishes in Tokyo is even cleaner and more utopian. Yet even as the Japanese version reproduces virtually every feature of its American models, it turns them into something entirely Japanese. Melvin, Buff and Max, the antlered commentators at the Country Bear Jamboree, speak in the grave basso profundos of Kurosawa samurai. Alice in Wonderland has Oriental features. Frontierland has been turned into Westernland ("The Japanese don't like frontiers," explains a park official), and Main Street has become the World Bazaar...
...book's biggest failings is the incidental coverage given to the more interesting minor candidates. More should have been written about the candidacy of Melvin H. King, whose campaign invited parallels with the presidential effort of his close associate, Jesse Jackson. Only a single paragraph is devoted to one of the campaign's unsolved puzzles, why King devoted what remained of his predominantly Black districts of Boston...
Flynn's South Boston origin was seen as a liability in his first campaign, when he won a close race against Melvin H. King, who would have been the first Black elected Mayor of Boston. But in this year's preliminary elections, Flynn's highest victory margins were in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan, predominantly Black areas of the city where Tierney has campaigned very little...
...when Flynn first ran for office, his principal opponent was Melvin H. King, a Black politician from South Boston. This time his opponent, city Councilor Joseph Tierney, was much less formidable, especially in these Black areas...
Referring to Hahn's decision to pose semi-nude and testifying she was victimized, Bakker's attorney, Melvin Belli, said Tuesday, "I think that for a poor, naive young girl, she's learned the ways of the world very fast...