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kid you gotta get a gimmick
June 26, 2008
An engineer from Walt Disney Imagineering, the theme-park developer, designed it. “Even the chairs in the lunchroom are the same ones we had at the Disney Studios,” a former Disney executive, who now works at the center, told me. “The only difference is these chairs don’t have the mouse ears.” She was one of several former Disney employees who signed up for government service after 9/11. The fantasy worlds that Disney creates have a surprising amount in common with the ideal universe envisaged by the intelligence community, in which environments are carefully controlled and people are closely observed, and no one seems to mind.