Word: monorail
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...Quad Houses: A monorail to the Yard...
Walt Disney himself had the original idea for a Disneyfied utopia, built under a giant dome, where residents would be whooshed from skyscraper to skyscraper on a high-speed monorail. As Walt envisioned it, no retirees would be allowed to live in his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, and nobody could own property. It was to be a paradise of young renters, a notion that surely would have been vigorously opposed by the senior-citizen lobby. But Disney died in 1966, before the plans were drawn...
...owly guys who drive in, buy a six-pack of beer and a bologna sandwich. Canyons draw families. And the Superior Canyon, without a doubt, will outdraw the Grand. It's bigger, for one thing, plus it has islands and sites of famous shipwrecks. You'll have a monorail tour of the sites with crumpled hulls of ships. Very respectful. But a major draw...
...family of underachievers, the Simpsons have achieved quite a bit. In the show, Homer has been a monorail conductor and a baseball mascot; he won a Grammy (for Outstanding Soul, Spoken Word or Barbershop Album) and survived eating a deadly blowfish. Marge sang Blanche Dubois in the musical O Streetcar! Lisa created her own talking doll, mastered the saxophone and the Talmud, was a Junior Miss Springfield, uncovered political corruption and saved the Republic. Bart adopted an elephant, fell down a well and was rescued by Sting, and was tried for murdering Principal Skinner. Maggie had her first word voiced...
...really futuristic, like something in the movies or the monorail at Disney World," said Carrie A. Burke, a junior at the University of Massachusetts, Boston...