While enclosed shopping malls suspended space, time, and weather, Disneyland went one step further and suspended reality. Any geog...raphic, cultural, or mythical location, whether supplied by fictional texts (Tom Sawyer's Island), historical locations (New Orleans Square), or futuristic projections (Space Mountain), could be reconfigured as a setting for entertainment. Shopping malls easily adapted this appropriation of "place" in the creation of a specialized theme environment. In Scottsdale, the Borgata, an open-air shopping mall set down in the flat Arizona desert, reinterprets the medieval Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano with piazza and scaled-down towers (made of real Italian bricks).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would ...she have set in order that huge littered empire of the one, and with indefatigable painstaking picked the peck of pickled peppers for the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taking a good mouthful, I felt as though I had taken liquid fire; the tomato was chile colorado, or red pepper, of the purest kind.... It nearly killed me, and I saw Gómez' eyes twinkle for he saw that his share of supper was increased.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper; A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.... If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »