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...Zazu, is more labored than in the film. But the show has few longueurs, some good new songs (Tim Rice and Elton John added three to the five they wrote for the film), and elaborately staged climaxes that really pay off. When Mufasa falls to his death from a cliff, he floats to the ground (suspended on wires) with a slow-motion grandeur that no movie special effect could...
Nobody is impressed with the extraordinary and supernormal events which transpire in cartoons. Cool as it looks, nobody ever says "Wow, how did they make such a great effect as to have Wile E. Coyote seem to fall off a cliff like that?" They drew it, that's how. And they can draw anything they want. Computer Generated Imaging gives special effects artists similar powers. Although GGI enables fantastic and beautiful sequences which could never before have been attempted, it also destroys the bewildering mystique of being able to portray something which the audience knows cannot actually happen...
...source compared the product which his company offers with that of Cliff's Notes and Encyclopedia Brittanica...
...bookstore sells Cliff's Notes which have no disclaimers about plagiarizing," he said. "I wonder why Bob Smith [from B.U.'s Office of the General Counsel] has not sued Cliff's Notes. Possibly because there he will be up against heavy money...and he knows he's treading on thin...
...Tibet in the 7th century. Instead of attaining complete enlightenment gradually, Tibetan monks claimed to do so in a single lifetime, an approach compared by Rick Fields, author of the American Buddhist history How the Swans Came to the Lake, to climbing the sheerest face of a Himalayan cliff: demanding and perilous. Unwilling to limit themselves to the standard tools--chanting and meditative breath-control techniques--the Vajrayana Buddhists employ an eclectic mix that includes religious visualizations, philosophical debate, ritual, yoga and the energies of tantric sex. Buddhism typically took on some of the color of local faiths, but Vajrayana...