Word: monorail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side, where there are also solar panels to catch the sun's rays, and becomes gradually opaque on the northern exposure. The principal entry points are two half-buried tubes that would serve as the major cross streets. Travel inside the dome would be by electric cars or monorail-to avoid lethal accumulations of automobile exhaust. Still, Tigan admits the project's "human dimensions" must be explored. One member of the city council, which last month approved a request for $55,000 in federal money to make the feasibility study, wondered how residents would feel about no longer...
...comes to economic issues, Kucinich is a real Raider himself. He cut the city's budget by $2.5 million, to a total of $129 million for this year. He upset the city's business community by rejecting a $41 million federal grant to build an elevated monorail that would carry people about the central city. For his part, Kucinich wants $1.5 billion in federal funds to be spent for new sewers in working-class neighborhoods. He also opposes as "ripoffs" the city's practice of offering tax abatements to businesses locating in distressed areas. One consequence: Cleveland...
Comden and Green have followed the plot line of the famed 1934 screwball-comedy film, but that line now seems monorail thin. Lacking inspired lunacy, Director Harold Prince has taken refuge in camp and stylistic cartoonery. As Oscar Jaffee, the flamboyant theatrical producer who is down on his mendacious luck, John Cullum looks and cavorts rather like a Barrymore run off by a slightly defective duplicating machine. To make a comeback, he must sign Lily Garland, the woman he catapulted to stardom, to a stage contract. In that role, Madeline Kahn displays an arsenal of talents. She is kooky, vulnerable...
...still not in use). 20 million passengers last year. Averages 460 landings and takeoffs daily. Two runways, 39 airlines. Delays: average 20 min. Accessibility: the best part. Allow 30 to 40 min. for 13-mile ride downtown by easy-to-get cab ($10). Buses every 30 min. ($2.50). Monorail (92?) takes 15 min. to edge of town. Flow Through: agonizing. Jampacked terminal with baggage carts between pickup turntable and customs inspection. Porters on hand. Moving sidewalks; longest unassisted walk: 100 ft. Baggage, immigration and customs checkout: allow an hour. Hotels/Motels: Air Terminal Hotel inside building. Six hotels near by. Amenities...
There are as many families waiting in line for the world's longest, highest, fastest, scariest roller-coaster ride (just about every park claims the ultimate) as there are for the elephant ride or the multimedia screen show or the placid monorail to nowhere. City children will spend hours playing with small animals; other young visitors may take a dozen consecutive gut-wrenching rides or spend rapt hours trailing wandering minstrels. Many TV-age adults see live shows and big-name concerts for the first time-and possibly the last, until their return to a theme park. Notes California...