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Word: suspicionland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mapped here under the big bold sky is America's Geography of Conspiracy. If Disney were to create a theme park celebrating American paranoia (Suspicionland U.S.A.), it might want to base the design on central Nevada. Tumbleweed stretches of empty highway roller-coaster over mountain ranges and down into salt flats, past ghost towns, federal prisons and legal brothels surrounded by barbed wire. In the sky, fighter-bombers execute mock dogfights and shoot laser-guided munitions at dummy air bases built from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTIN, NEVADA: CONSPIRACY, U.S.A. | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

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