Word: bambi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...empire of fantasy. Today the company is bigger and richer than ever. Profits flow in from Disney's two successful theme parks, Disneyland in California and the magic kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, from film rentals and television, from re-releases of such longtime favorites as Bambi, Pinocchio and Fantasia, and from sales of record albums, Mickey Mouse wristwatches and everything else bearing the Disney stamp...
...doubles matches proved no more troublesome for Radcliffe's powerhouse. The veteran duo of Katherine Fulton and Andi Okamura dispatched Bambi Graff and Nanci Miller by double 6-2 scores. Rita Funaro, playing with a new partner, Ann Koufman, at second doubles, beat Conni Mentana and Val Troyansky...
Second singles player Suki Magraw whipped her opponent Wendy Miller 6-3, 6-2. Denise Thal in the third position followed up with a 6-4, 6-1 scalding of Bambi Flickinger. Rita Funaro, Maude Wood and Ann Koufman added the final three points to the team score on the singles side...
...feat of self-projection in which neurosis and imagination are rendered equally concrete. One instinctive response is to turn away from Disney. After all, the promotional goo about magic, warmth and wonder that has been ladled over him and his works in the past 20 years would make even Bambi puke. But Disney's really interesting side was not the fabled rapport with children (from all accounts, he was about as innocent as Bobby Riggs and somewhat less likable) but the grip of organization-first in his art itself, and then in the area of business and social manipulation...
Since the '50s-since Bambi in 1942, some would say-the reduction has gone even further, acting on Disney's earlier work in a steady process of self-cannibalization that increases to the extent that the early Disney is seen as high art. The animals get cuter and more anthropomorphic, the forest glade more compulsively spotless, the characters blander; and having deprived Mickey of his rattishness, Donald Duck of his foul and treacherous temper, the Disney studio had no qualms about ruining Alice in Wonderland or Kipling's Jungle Book for the kids as well. Yet within...