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...Jews in the 1930s before more than half of the Jewish community was murdered by the Nazis and their Hungarian offshoot, the Arrow Cross Party. Now, half a century later, the historical association lingers: when the team runs onto the field, the crowd sometimes shouts, "Goose merchants!" -- a barnyard variation on the odious stereotype of Jews as moneygrubbers. Fears Gati: "It is far from certain that post- Communist Eastern Europe will fully embrace Western values...
Disney and Don Bluth can lead the way. Walt Disney, after all, created the genre, turning barnyard animals into superstars and a Sunday-supplement curiosity into the movie's most enduring subspecies. Bluth, a Disney renegade, showed his old masters that the cartoon possessed a social vitality for the '80s. Bluth's The Secret of NIMH was a parable on animal experimentation; An American Tail found much to say, endearingly, about melting-pot prejudice; The Land Before Time found love and death among the dinosaurs. Now Disney and Bluth have launched a welcome new Thanksgiving tradition, each producing a feature...
...ADVENTURES OF MILO AND OTIS. Milo is a barnyard kitten and Otis his dogged friend in this live-action children's film narrated by Dudley Moore. If cute were still a word of approval, Masanori Hata's charming parable would earn...
...ADVENTURES OF MILO AND OTIS. Milo is a barnyard kitten and Otis his dogged friend in this live-action children's film narrated by Dudley Moore. If cute were still a word of approval, Masanori Hata's charming parable would earn...
...element back East, uncomfortable in his father's shadow once again. Of the five Bush children, George, the eldest, had always been the most drawn to Dad's patterns of endeavor. What rebellion he waged was stylistic. He became the real Texan in the family -- chewing tobacco, using barnyard humor, settling in the state's western corner -- the one harboring what his aunt Nancy Ellis calls a "slightly outrageous streak...