Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone from Eisner to the Hawaiian Hot Dog vendors, Disney is not just a 9-to-5 job. It's a way of life. Ultimately, it's also a way of prolonging all of our childhoods." Senior Writer Richard Corliss, who wrote the accompanying story on the enduring appeal of Disney characters, agrees with that view. He saw his first Disney film, Alice in Wonderland, at the age of seven, and has visited Disney World at least a dozen times as an adult. "Like most people connected with moviemaking and movie watching, I'm still childlike," he confesses. "The purity...
...volume, Italo Calvino considered many options for the title of this collection before he hit on the word "memos." For an American, the word has unpleasant associations--the torpid prose of bureaucrats and administrators, whose spell-check word processors restrict their vocabularies--but one can see how it would appeal to a European intellectual like Calvino. It has a soothing alliteration, and its etymology--an abbreviation of "memorandum," something "to be remembered"--implies history...
...others, the appeal of hands-on legal experience, which is the basis for the wealth of clinical studies programs at the Law School, makes the Bureau a good alternative to the Law Review or other non-clinical organizations...
...letter was an appeal for the release of Hanna Mykhaylenko, a Soviet librarian from Odessa who was arrested in 1980 for advocating the right of Ukrainians to use their native language. She was declared insane and confined in a maximum security psychiatric hospital...
Neither Dukakis, Gore, nor any of the has-beens can reproduce Mondale's special appeal to Blacks. Their particular needs, and the fact that only Jackson addresses them, explains much of his success this year...