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...beautiful day for a wedding -- crisp, clear and, for China in midsummer, relatively cool. The latest typhoon's high winds have swept away the air pollution, and under a brilliant blue sky the guests are chatting in the hollow of a terraced field beside a single spindly tree -- symbolic decoration in a country whose scant arable land continues to disappear. Arranged neatly alongside the makeshift altar, the gifts intended for the bride's parents include a new refrigerator, a 24-in. color television set and a jet black Yamaha motorcycle. The presents are ogled, but atop the TV a photograph...
Down South, the heirs of the soap-obsessed Walt Disney have raised bathing to an art form. In Florida, Walt Disney World has just opened Typhoon Lagoon, the last splash in water theme parks. Visitors can paddle in a wave pool the size of 2 1/2 football fields, which sports computer-controlled water chambers that empty out in a torrent of 4-ft. waves simulating ocean surf. High above on Mount May Day teeters a replica of a wrecked fishing boat that periodically spouts a spray of water. In keeping with the typhoon motif, one artfully ramshackle building...
Traditional wateringholes are flooded with visitors in search of rivers to raft down, cliffs to leap from, lakes to tube across and waterfalls to shower beneath. But for those with something more elaborate in mind, the designers at Disney present Typhoon Lagoon and Splash Mountain, the ultimate in amusement parks...
Anger at being barred from Britain apparently helped rouse Hong Kong's slumbering political spirit last week. In an emotional declaration, Frances Hung, a 24-year-old secretary who braved a typhoon to participate in a march, asserted, "I am a Chinese British subject with a British passport, but what does that mean? Nothing. I cannot leave Hong Kong. The people in Tiananmen Square are my brothers and sisters. They have the same blood as I do. I am Chinese." The unaccustomed outpouring of emotion left many demonstrators teary-eyed. Even the colony's upper crust showed its support...
...theme parks in Florida, Japan and Anaheim, Calif. Now it reigns as box-office champ. It also produces hit series like Golden Girls, boasts 9,000 rooms in its Florida hotels and plans to open Euro Disneyland outside Paris in 1992. And still Eisner eyes more robust expansion. Typhoon Lagoon, a 50-acre water theme park, premieres next month, followed shortly by a PG-rated night-life district called Pleasure Island and three more hotels with an additional 4,500 rooms. Disney-MGM Studios (the company purchased rights to use MGM films in its attractions) is also a functioning movie...