Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HARA-KIRI AT THE BELLY BUTTONS OF HITLER'S BARBARIANS. . . . I BELIEVE THAT FOR A LONG TIME TO COME YOUR CANADIAN READERS WILL REMEMBER TIME'S CLEAR, CONCISE AND COMPLETE COMMENTS ON CANADA'S WAR EFFORTS . . . AND THAT TODAY'S ISSUE HAS DONE MUCH TO BUCK UP THE DROOPING MORALE ON THE D.O.C. HOME FRONT. THE D.O.C. IS INDEED MIGHTY PLEASED WITH TIME AND PROUD OF TIME'S ALL-OUT AID AND UNSELFISH EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY...
...dancer, shows no signs of slowing down. Each of his routines has a new and different sparkle. One, performed while tipsy, is a deft parody of jitterbuggery. Another, a 4th of July number done to the accompaniment of torpedoes and firecrackers, is his favorite staccato buck & wing, with some fresh frills. A dazzler for any audience, it was a headache for studio technicians. Astaire could explode his own torpedoes, but the firecrackers had to pop in time with his fidgety feet. Technicians built an organ that would set off the crackers electrically, so that the organist could play the explosions...
Bambi is the brown-eyed, white-scutted fawn of Felix Salten's somewhat candied forest idyl. Disney animates Bambi from birth to buck. He is an appealing, wonderfully articulated little deer, whose progressive discoveries of rain, snow, ice, the seasons, man, love, death, etc. make a neatly antlered allegory. Bambi's rubber-jointed, slack-limbed, coltish first steps in the art of walking are, even for Disney, inspired animation. The undying affection bestowed on him by a young skunk, whom Bambi inadvertently names Flower, is grade-A Disney. His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops...
Fantasia's use of color to suggest moods and emotions is repeated in the yellow-white silhouettes of Bambi and his mother fleeing from the hunters in the meadow-symbols of livid fear. When Bambi fights another buck for possession of Faline, the spring day darkens to an ominous brownish red, like drying blood. The battling bucks fight in luminous outline against a wine-dark background...
Representatives of Boston newspapers and wire services were guests of the University yesterday afternoon on a tour designed to point out Harvard's contribution to the war effort. Beginning their inspection with a press luncheon at the Faculty Club, presided over by Dean Paul H. Buck and addressed by army and Navy representatives who spoke to them both on and off the record, the newsmen spent on hour in Cambridge. At 3:30 o'clock they crossed the Charles to visit the Business School. After examining the Fatigue Laboratory, they were addressed by Dean Donald K. David and taken...