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Oriental Land Co., the Japanese real estate company that built and owns the park, began reclaiming land for the site 19 years ago in Urayasu, a town of 80,000 just outside the capital. In 1974 the company began holding serious talks with officials of Walt Disney Productions, but the negotiations were often tortuous. Recalls Disney Vice President Frank Stanek: "Both sides had to penetrate formidable cultural barriers." A deal was finally struck in 1979, under which Disney agreed to provide its technology, advice and guidance during construction in return for a share of the gross ticket take. Before...
...Jimmy Wynn, Walt Williams, Carl Hubbell, Al Hrabosky, and Ed Charles...
...Says Editor Rosenthal: "Sometimes he goes too far on innuendo, even for a columnist." For example, on very scant evidence, Safire has unfairly suggested that Senator John Glenn is anti-Israel. He couples such impetuousness with a merry disregard for consistency. He quotes with self-satisfaction a line from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself...
Kaplan's narratives, like William Manchester's in his monumental, novelistic American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur (1978), are logical, not chronological. Kaplan does not, for example, begin his recent Walt Whitman: A Life, with the poet's birth. Instead, the bard is introduced at age 65, broken and disabled by a stroke, buying his first house in seedy Camden, N.J. His brother George is angered by those "whorehouse" poems. Whitman responds, "I just did what I did because I did it-that's the whole secret." "You're as stubborn as hell," George says...
...believes "Chaplin rightly thought he was creating a new kind of language." The new languages need an interpreter: "You hope to be on the inside of your subject, but also hold a distance from him," Kaplan says. But sometimes it does not work that way. "I once dreamed that Walt Whitman was pursuing me with an ax for invading his privacy...