Word: towns
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Hiaasen's ire stems mostly from the creation of Disney World, virtually right in his own backyard. He hates what the theme park has done to his home town of Orlando, attracting people to a purely synthetic, artificially reassuring fairyland while treating the neighboring real world of South Florida as an offensive trash heap...
About two years ago, the folks at Disney founded the town of Celebration, Fla.-a town of everyday people, in their everyday homes, living everyday lives-after it realized that it had no other use for land that it purchased as a possible extension of Disney World. From the beginning it saw Celebration as a noble social experiment, a model community for the next century. Disney contacted some of the world's leading architects to design the town. Educational experts planned a progressive school system that would largely do away with a formal curriculum and assessment of student performance through...
LOWELL, Mass--Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci and Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64 squared off in the first debate of the gubernatorial campaign last nigh before a boisterous crowd in this former mill town...
Plans for the millennium festivities include a nostalgic coastal voyage aboard a precise reproduction of a turn-of-the-century steamship. Says Sheryl Ozinksy, spokeswoman for Captour, Cape Town's tourist organization: "We want people to be telling their grandchildren they were in Cape Town for New Year 2000." By then, the city's hotel capacity will have nearly doubled, to around 15,000 beds, and prices will be in the $40-to-$150-a night range...
...wife and I are like the people in Magic Town, the '40s movie about a pollster (James Stewart) who moves to a town that is a perfect microcosm of national opinions and adopts a cover to keep the townspeople from getting self-conscious. In fact, I sometimes imagine James Stewart having coffee in our kitchen, disguised as a UPS deliveryman. "Some people on the route are saying that the President's actions were reckless and inexcusable," James Stewart says...