Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critics have never been tugged by tireless children through seven-plus hours (the average time spent per park per family) of short rides and long lines, mini-zoos and maxi-queues, live shows, deadly lines, fast food, slow lines, indigestion, blurred vision and pedialgia (sore feet). In fact, the vast majority of the 80 million people who will visit theme parks this year are involved, tireless and eclectic in their pursuit of pleasure...
...Tampa, Fla. Since both parks are also the sites of Anheuser-Busch breweries, and their owners are understandably interested in promoting suds consumption, both spots have "hospitality centers" that actually give away beer (Cokes and Sprites cost 50?). Busch Gardens' Old Country, near Williamsburg, has a vast Festhaus where visitors can quaff Michelob and munch bratwurst. The company's Dark Continent, near Tampa, has replicated a famed Swiss inn and offers one of the few gourmet menus in the world that allows the diner to eat, sip wine and overlook the goings-on of free-ranging chimps, giraffes...
...other, would be delighted with the tangled mess he left behind. His death 14 months ago immediately set up a potential clash between his long-estranged family and the financially privileged insiders who ran Hughes' solely owned Summa Corp., which was founded in 1972 to oversee his vast holdings. At first, to almost everybody's surprise, peace reigned between the rival camps. But, after months of growing tensions, a full-scale battle for Hughes' fortune has now broken...
Part of the struggle is a fight over information-the Government asking for vast amounts, the company often resisting. "It can be a huge job," says Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General and now the IBM vice president in charge of the legal defense. "Sometimes plaintiffs ask for something we don't have-we'd have to ask every salesman in every branch office-because it's not the sort of information that the company needs to run itself. Or sometimes they ask for a file from the early '60s, and those files are crated...
...Manhattan, Studio 54, once the baroque Fortune Gallo Opera House and later a CBS studio, has been transformed into a dancer's Disneyland (membership $125 a year). The vast (5,000 sq. ft.) shuffle area is a stage, with theatrical lighting, scrims and backdrops rising as high as 85 ft. A dozen pencil-thin poles of red and yellow light blink, twirl, rise and fall amid the dancers; revolving silver prisms above the dance floor reflect flashing strobes. In all, there are 450 different special effects, including snowfalls (plastic) and a giant half-moon with glowing nose and spoon...