Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles station, Radio Clandestino, broadcasts leftist Chicano fare; Rick Strawcutter, a Fundamentalist pastor from Adrian, Mich., who is battling the FCC in federal court for the right to air right-winger Bo Gritz and rail against income tax; two guys from Radio Free Bakersfield who play the homegrown punk-rock bands the commercial stations ignore; and a 19-year-old Milwaukee, Wis., waitress with pink-and-purple hair who reads from Winnie-the-Pooh on her Radio Free Bob children's hour. "There's no difference between microradio and the printing presses of the Founding Fathers that were outlawed...
...recorded voice at the start of the adventure encourages you to "Grow eyes!"; there are dozens of shy creatures--Waldo-beasts, if you will--waiting to be discovered by the visitor who is visually acute. Look hard for the gray elephant trying to tuck herself behind the grayish rock. Flick a peek to one side and catch a pair of two-ton white rhinos who seem to have sleepy-mean eyes to butt the tram (hatari!). And don't miss the gawky East African crowned cranes off to the right. The driver turns on a radio, a sweet Swahili tune...
...animals' behavior is not so much altered as stage-managed. To the visitor, that lion and lioness sunbathing on Pride Rock look close enough...well, close enough to eat you. But they are separated from the tram by an unseen gulch too wide for the beasts to straddle. The savanna where they roam was once drab cow pasture, but every weed and rut has been meticulously contoured and art-directed to resemble an African plain. Disney's Imagineers did a convincing makeover. When Franklin Sonn, the South African ambassador to the U.S., saw the place last month, he said, "This...
...love wild things!" enthuses landscape architect Paul Comstock, 47, a gangly blond with an Andy Devine voice. Comstock is one such creature; he has drummed for rock bands as well as designed rock gardens, and he punctuates his remarks with urgent gesticulations, as if he were on strings maneuvered by a mad marionetteer. It was his job and pleasure to dress the park in 4 million trees, shrubs and grasses from six continents...
...borrowed from them, movies like This Is Spinal Tap have parodied them--their Walking into Clarksdale is a relatively loose-limbed, unencumbered affair. There are no sprawling Stairway to Heaven-type pieces here, only songs that are for the most part relatively modest and direct. This isn't hard rock, but it is solid...