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THIS IS A LOVE SONG, OF COURSE. Aladdin the street rat is taking Princess Jasmine on a flight into the liberating skyland of first love. But the Tim Rice lyric, riding the lush carpet of Alan Menken's melody, also defines the sorcery of movie animation. Artists wave the wand of a pencil over a piece of paper and, like the most genial genie, create unbelievable sights, indescribable feelings. "Don't you dare close your eyes!/ A hundred thousand things to see!/ Hold your breath, it gets better...
...magic carpet ride...
...these ghostly materials Michael Ondaatje has fashioned a magic carpet of a novel that soars across worlds and times. Ondaatje, a Sri Lankan poet who lives in Toronto, has gained considerable acclaim before, most notably for his one-of-a-kind memoir of colonial Ceylon, Running in the Family. He has also established himself as one of the most inspired chroniclers, and exemplars, of the new cross-cultural mix taking shape all around us, able to light up Salman Rushdie-land with a visual daring that must have moviemakers salivating. Two weeks ago, The English Patient won England's prestigious...
Harvard is not the most loved institution in Cambridge. Many Cambridge residents see Harvard students almost as carpet-baggers, coming to Cambridge and interrupting its peace, allowing the College to take advantage of housing and zoning laws and then never putting any thing back into the community...
...fact, the grass-roots movement he invokes looks more like an Astroturf carpet, rolled out by a cadre of Dallas insiders and funded out of Perot's deep pockets. Since he pulled out of the race on July 16, Perot has pumped in more than $4 million to keep his candidacy alive, much of it to bankroll the petition drive that has put him on the ballot in all 50 states...