Word: munchkinland
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...Every gift handmade by elves." That's the motto at the North Pole. Just about everyone but the Claus family security force is undersize. Midgets (mostly from Russia) man the assembly lines. The village's Security Force comprises three dwarfs who look like Munchkinland's Lollipop Guild, but tougher; they're the Blackwater of little people...
...sounds like Utopia, like Oz's Munchkinland after Dorothy squashed the wicked witch and everyone jumped up from hiding to do a dance. "People are turning out because of the Internet--they don't have to be mobilized," says Beck. One motivator, oddly, is nostalgia, an emotion that the Internet accelerates. Events in Seattle cast an afterglow that continues to spread in the retelling. Kelly Vaughan, 20, a senior at Chicago's DePaul University, recalls sitting at her computer last November poring over e-mail accounts of the frontline action. She instantly relayed the news to a list of about...
...cathedral, the Chinese theater, where the Casablanca piano and Dorothy's ruby slippers repose under glass. Computerized mannequins portray such stars as James Cagney, Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford. An Alien monster lurches and drools. For all its bustle, the ride refuses to enthrall. Even a beguiling stop in Munchkinland reminds the passengers that, however the technology of Disney rides has improved, the scope has not changed since the '60s. It's a Small World after...
WELCOME to Tasty Meadows, the middle-American MunchkinLand where the massive shopping center is the primary gathering place, where television-watching is the favorite pasttime, and where the sun-always shining--seems to reflect off everything, creating a glaring, ultra-gloss sheen on car fenders, carefully-groomed, Brillcreamed coiffures, and the flourescent polyester suits of the cheery citizenry. Here, America's real ordinary people great each other with advertising slogans: "Hi, you should try this new fertilizer on your lawn, it's terrific!" "How are you? Have you ever seen our boat shine like this? It's new Boatsheen...
...Munchkinland was never quite like this. At the Shubert...