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...work done as Walt Disney World tourists gawk at them through the huge windows of the animation pavilion. It doesn't seem to have distracted them a whit, for the team, led by directors Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft and producer Pam Coats, has created the boldest, most persuasive storytelling in a while, in a ravishing pastel palette (from production designer Hans Bacher) that recalls the color experiments of Fantasia as much as the delicacy of Chinese graphic...
Amos' latest CD, From the Choirgirl Hotel, is the best and boldest of her career. Her previous CDs were often irritatingly ethereal; on Choirgirl, a full band underscores her piano, giving her music new urgency. Now, instead of being a spectator for Amos' passion, you are swept up in the force and energy of the music. "I had explored the girl-at-the-piano thing," she says. "It was time for new territory." Amos has long had some of the most fervid fans in rock--the numerous websites devoted to her portray her less as a rock star than...
...international banks have struggled with competitors from American Express to America Online, McColl has engineered a kind of banking miracle in homey Charlotte, a deus ex machina where the machina is his very own NationsBank automated-teller machines, and the deus wears cowboy boots. Last week McColl announced the boldest deal yet: a plan to merge NationsBank with California-based BankAmerica to create a golden Godzilla with deposits of $346 billion. On Wall Street, where financial stocks have sizzled this year, the marriage was greeted with huge plaudits. On Main Street, average customers (the combined bank will have millions...
This was one of the boldest strategic decisions in history. Convinced that Hitler could not invade Britain while the Royal Navy and its protecting Royal Air Force remained intact, he dispatched the army to a remote theater of war to open a second front against the Nazi alliance. Its victories against Mussolini during 1940-41 both humiliated and infuriated Hitler, while its intervention in Greece, to oppose Hitler's invasion of the Balkans, disrupted the Nazi dictator's plans to conclude German conquests in Europe by defeating Russia...
...That said, in some respects, her decision late Wednesday should not have come as a surprise. Her boldest decision in eight years on the bench -- until now -- was in January, when she barred any evidence about the Monica S. Lewinsky matter from the Jones case...