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...computer-animated features, such as Pixar's Toy Story and A Bug's Life. There is clay and/or puppet animation--and because of the artistry of Nick Park and Peter Lord, it is going to grab audiences. We are expanding the definition of the form. It's a brave new world in animation...
...mood is less brave than bleak on the moor of Tweedy's farm, in the mid-'50s. Mrs. Tweedy, the vicious camp commandant (voiced by Miranda Richardson), and her slow-witted, henpecked husband (Tony Haygarth) have shown her prisoners what happens to a hen who hasn't laid eggs: it becomes a chicken with its head cut off. This fowl existence is driving even Ginger (Julia Sawalha, known to U.S. viewers as young Saffy on the Brit-import sitcom Absolutely Fabulous) close to desperation. Then, out of the sky, a savior drops with a thud. He is Rocky Roads (Gibson...
...case opening Monday in New York's District Court, the Justice Department will make a case that the card companies are in fact one monopolistic presence; according to the suit, Visa and MasterCard crush competition by blacklisting banks who offer cards from other networks. That means any bank brave (or foolish) enough to send customers cards emblazoned with an American Express or Discover logo may find itself effectively frozen out of industry decision-making operations...
...About 200 students brave chilly winds and near-freezing temperatures in the Yard and at the Holyoke Center to rally for a $10 per hour 'living wage' for Harvard employees...
...Kennedy White House, written in the year after JFK's assassination. In his grief, Schlesinger portrayed Kennedy as saint and martyr: "He was a Harvard man, a naval hero, an Irishman, a politician, a bon vivant, a man of unusual intelligence, charm, wit and ambition, 'debonair and brilliant and brave,' but his deeper meaning was still in process of crystallization." In recent decades, a more thorough and honest parsing of Kennedy has edited a lot of the hagiology out of his memory...