Word: australian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were nine: six British, an Irishman, an Australian and me. We all lived in adjacent apartments...
...actual count -- well, actual approximate count -- the Australian rock band INXS has played 2,000 performances during the past 13 years. And what have its members got to show for it? Folks still have trouble with the name. "In excess" would be phonetically correct, but it lacks the cool mystery of those four uppercase letters, which make the lads loom large, like something mythic: six electrified Druids with some new rhythmic spells to weave...
...comparison as "equally tragic" the deaths of 1,400 Moslem pilgrims and 7,000 Australian pcnguins...
...civilized life is all veneer, as thin as chintz wallpaper and easier to strip. Consider Margaret Murchie, who is the guest of honor along with her new husband, William Damien, heir to an Australian fortune. Margaret has been linked to three mysterious deaths. She was the last person to see alive her grandmother, her schoolteacher and a nun at the convent where she went to atone for the death of the first two. Now she would be happy to dispatch her wealthy mother-in-law, Hilda Damien, who is expected for dessert...
Sounds like your standard kidventure picture, doesn't it? But that judgment reckons without the transforming power of animation, which in this case offers a fascinating study in contrasts. The setting is the Australian outback -- vast, empty, rendered in subtle pastels and often seen from radically high or low angles -- where only grownup man, the poacher, is vile. The film's designers speak of Gustave Dore as an inspiration, but their use of geologic mass may also remind viewers of the Creation sequence in Fantasia. And their vision of the eagle recalls Fantasia's prehistoric creatures...