Word: playland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, as people across the nation gathered at shrines to usher in an auspicious New Year, Tokyo Disneyland stayed open for 36 straight hours, serving as a kind of alternative temple. By day's end 200,000 votaries had observed the country's most important holiday at its favorite playland...
...popular store for born-too-late New Yorkers, Butterfly on Eighth Street, stopped selling fake i.d.'s after a Sixty Minutes expose led to their getting busted. Playland, in the heart of Times Square, doesn't make student i.d.'s anymore, and the bold black letters that read "Official Identification" on the cards that they now sell hardly look official. In addition, in order to legally sell fake i.d.'s, Playland has to stamp the cards "For Novelty Use Only...
...Caroline found a small shop next door to Playland that gave her a new identify. Born again, this time in 1964 and in Connecticut, Caroline figured she was in business, but has yet to test her purchase...
...confirmed bachelor who looks a bit like Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion, McGowan lived in rented apartments for most of his life, but four years ago he bought a house in Georgetown and converted it into a revealing kind of private playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some...