Word: tinsel
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...Universal's Florida movieland is just a script. Disney's is a tangible fantasy -- real tinsel draped artfully over Hollywood's phony tinsel, an art industry glammed up as an elegant Deco dream. There is a sanitizing genius to the Disney parks, with their canny nostalgia for an America that may have existed only in the lace-valentine heart of a young Walt Disney. And the tactic works best when applying a cartoonist's paintbrush to a world that is fiction, on- and offscreen. Disney-MGM Studios marries movies to theme parks with the astuteness of Hollywood's hottest studio...
Last week a decree went out from the Bethlehem city council that will make Christmas 1988 the gloomiest yet. To express solidarity with the Arab cause, the leaders ordered historic Manger Square to be bare of the usual tinsel and twinkling lights. The city is also canceling the annual Boy Scout parade and its reception for visiting dignitaries. Moreover, many citizens say they are too dispirited this year to hold their customary family celebrations. The new Latin patriarch Michel Sabbah, a pointed critic of Israel's policy toward Arab residents, will still lead the centuries-old procession across the square...
...most secure jails when it opened in 1986, Canto Grande no longer deserves that reputation. Its closed-circuit televisions and searchlights are broken. Inside the four-story women's cellblock, the inmates have taken over and turned it into a Senderista training camp, complete with red felt and tinsel banners that proclaim LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION...
...compresses four decades of social history into the battered but unrepentant cry of a faded star. It gets a showstopping performance by Dolores Gray, who made her Broadway debut in 1944 and hasn't faded a bit. Follies seemed fragmented and vignettish in 1971, and still does. But the tinsel glitters like stardust, and the vignettes are often thrilling...
...Tinsel Town...