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American Dreaming by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who, besides inventing himself as a Hollywood celebrity, invented Las Vegas as the playground for our more primitive fantasies. Warren Beatty and Annette Bening are terrific in director Barry Levinson's smart-ironic, romantic-perverse, funny-poignant take on modern life in a fast, deadly lane...
...travel the streets of Los Angeles is to glimpse America's ethnic future. At the bustling playground at McDonald's in Koreatown, a dozen shades of kids squirt down the slides and burrow through tunnels and race down the catwalks, not much minding that no two of them speak the same language. Parents of grade-school children say they rarely know the color of their youngsters' best friends until they meet them; it never seems to occur to the children to say, since they have not yet been taught to care...
...world may come to California thinking it is a magnificent playground, which it is. "Eureka," says the state's motto: "I have found it." Gold is the color of the Forty-Niners' wealth and of white skin set to glowing in the California sun. But nature may object to the uses to which it is put. The hills may go off like a fire bomb, as they did in Oakland a few weeks ago. Or the solid earth may abruptly rumble and break in devastating earthquakes...
Precinct 3: Gately Shelter (enter from Fitzgerald School playground...
...Zone has sold 120 outlets in the past 14 months, boasting sandboxes full of brightly colored plastic spheres, mazes, mats to bounce on, obstacle courses, moonwalks, slides and mountains to climb. Now mega- franchiser McDonald's is getting into the act. The burger giant is test- marketing a new playground, Leaps & Bounds, in Naperville, Ill. Phys Kids of Wichita has opened one center and has plans to expand...