Word: rides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Apple parades the usual assortment of acts. There are horse tricks, clowns, acrobats and a band. This array has changed surprisingly little in two hundred years. In 1770, Philip Astley, a skilled equestrian who could ride balanced on his head, brought together in one ring "Chinese Shadows, Tumbling, Slack-Rope Vaulting, Egyptian Pyramids" and a clown named Burt. Flocks of Londoners paid a shilling to see the show, the first modern circus...
This December, when I arrived home for winter break and sulked the whole ride from the airport, my mom pointed to a billboard hanging over I-75 and smiled...
Euro Disney is not a French adaptation of the company's parks in California and Florida. The Gallic accent is muted. There is no Moliere's Magic Theater, no Mad Marcel Proust's teacup ride. Euro Disney is the familiar all-American park somehow landed on 5,000 acres of wheat fields and beet fields in Marne- la-Vallee, 20 miles east of Paris. The attractions do not presume to explain Europe to Europe; instead they celebrate America the bland and beautiful, and reinvent it, Disney-style. Hence the transcontinental, cross- cultural ruckus...
...overwhelming wealth of instructive ornament, commandeering the eye and the mind to ensure that visitors breathe, eat, buy and damn well dream Disney. But the riot of detail is also part of the show, maybe the best part. At other parks -- Great Adventure, Magic Mountain, Universal Studios Florida -- the rides are the attraction; with Disney, the park is the ride...
...what a joyous ride it is, for those with open eyes and minds. As an old Franco-American hit had it, "Ooh, la, la, la, c'est magnifique...