Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swathed in a cocoonlike gown of gold lamé, she came wriggling out of the wings like a caterpillar on a hot rock. At the mike, still undulating, she launched into a typical Dandridge patter song called Love Isn't Born, It's Made. Sample...
...Caterpillar Tractor Co. borrowed $35 million to expand its plants in Joliet and Peoria, Ill., and to build a new plant in York, Pa. which will be used to supply its eastern and Canadian dealers...
...tone and spirit of the original. The mock-solemn humor of Carroll's perversely logical nonsense is all but lost in a jazzed-up jangle of gags, violence, slapstick and sticky jukebox ballads. Only rarely, e.g., the scene where Alice (spoken by Kathy Beaumont) meets the hookah-smoking caterpillar (Richard Haydn), does the Disney idiom enrich the fun instead of slanting it down to the comic-strip level...
...sadder convictions were never concealed for long. "For 25 years," he complained, "they tear a man to shreds, and then they come and present him with a quill pen made of aluminum." He had little faith in any triumph of human goodness. "In nature," he assured Bunin, "a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it's the other way round...
Wakening Discs. When the caterpillar is full-sized, its tissues dissolve to form a yolky fluid. The imaginal discs wake up suddenly. Nourished by the fluid, they burst into furious growth, constructing within the larva's old skin an entirely new insect: the hibernating pupa. Later, a similar burst of growth turns the pupa into the adult moth...