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All were done on near-at-hand scraps of paper, including the backs of medication labels.

But others, relying on near-at-hand family pets, pool noodles, boogie boards and the like, do a pretty good job of replicating the experience that theme parks create using animatronics, computer-generated images, motion-simulation technologies and multiple millions of dollars.

That substance—domestic trauma, systemic racism, and economic dislocation—is also the very stuff of society, and the near-at-hand intimacy gives rise to a film of vast scope and political depth.

In other words, less hectoring and lecturing, less trying to remake the culture at large, and more strengthening one’s “near-at-hand community,” Levin writes.

Although near-at-hand, tourism from the US had been severely limited in the past, but is expected to increase dramatically after rules were relaxed in 2016.