Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This, Victor Liquori's heartfelt wish for his audience of about 45 awed onlookers who stood in the shade of a spreading California oak to witness one of two daily demonstrations on the fine art of eviscerating and preparing squid. "Squooshy but easy," was one woman's verdict, undaunted by the appearance of the glistening cephalopod, its oval, cylindrical body being dangled by a tentacle and looking startlingly like a silvery, translucent mouse...
Interestingly, there does exist an animal called the giant rat of Sumatra, just as there does exist a beast called racism. Those facts (that the creatures actually exist) have nothing to do, however, with the art of telling horror stories and lies. That skill has its earliest development in the imagination of children, standing in front of angry parents and frantically inventing alibis. Sometimes children are brilliant...
...ART DIRECTOR: Rudolph Hoglund...
Working in anonymity, the old masters of animation were free to wreak fertile anarchy. Today those cartoons are deemed big art, and Roger Rabbit is big business. The film cost about a zillion simoleons (well, $35 million) and carries a humongous 739 names on the credits (not including Kathleen Turner, who lends her voice to Jessica). Something got lost in the move from storyboard to screen, and in the stretch from seven minutes to 103. From sad experience, Disney and Spielberg should know the perils of paying huge homage to modest genres, yet Roger Rabbit has the odor...
...usual case for prizefighting as art or science is harder to make in the face of Mike Tyson, the monster that men have worried was at the heart of their undefinable passion and indefensible sport. For twelve rounds or less, Tyson and Michael Spinks will fight over the heavyweight championship next week. It is time again to shiver. See SPORT...