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...conventions of gender. "You see Mulan get physically stronger, but she also uses her brain," says Coats. "We tried really hard to balance her feminine and masculine side." Mulan is more complex than your average action figure. For example, she isn't afraid to hug the Emperor in a burst of emotion. Still, it's noteworthy that one of Disney's most vigorous heroines literally has to disguise herself as a boy. Says Karlyn: "We're beginning to think about heroism in a female way. But we don't have narratives or genres in which we can comfortably fit strong...
...starting point for the clock was designed to be a quarter to midnight. When we moved it to 17 minutes to midnight in 1991, it was in a burst of optimism. If we found things were so good that we could move it to 10:30, we'd just retire...
...YORK: So the salad days are back, right? The Federal Reserve's yen-propping Wednesday certainly had the desired effect: The yen rebounded, the dollar retreated, and the Dow, in one spectacular burst, erased nearly all of Monday's losses and closed up Wednesday 164 points in the black. Tonight, look for Asia to be back in a buying mood...
Would it have been better in The Graduate if the church door had held, and Dustin Hoffman had not been able to burst in on the scene and whisk Katharine Ross away? In which circumstance would the damsel have been in greater distress? Does love really conquer all? That, I always thought, was the point of the movie...
...where he soon after adopted his maternal grandfather's name, Le Corbusier, as his pseudonym. Jeanneret had been a small-town architect; Le Corbusier was a visionary. He believed that architecture had lost its way. Art Nouveau, all curves and sinuous decorations, had burned itself out in a brilliant burst of exuberance; the seductive Art Deco style promised to do the same. The Arts and Crafts movement had adherents all over Europe, but as the name implies, it was hardly representative of an industrial age. Le Corbusier maintained that this new age deserved a brand-new architecture. "We must start...