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Despite the elaborate preparations for the opening banquet, which included special uniforms for the dining hall staff and cloth napkins on the tables, Nathans stressed the informality of the event in an e-mail message yesterday afternoon...
...Young Woman with a Pitcher, circa 1658-60, the subject holds a gilt water pitcher while opening a casement window whose leaded pane looks just like a 1912 Mondrian apple tree turned on its side. Blue is everywhere: deep ultramarine in her skirt and sleeves, lighter blue in the cloth on the table, whose tone rhymes with the rolling bar of the map on the wall--a recession of precisely judged color echoes. It is also reflected in the pitcher, whose basin gathers beneath its rim an exquisitely ordered mosaic of reflections from the tabletop. And then there...
...STORY Two generations of kids' playthings--a cloth cowboy and a rocket man--reach detente in this marvelously inventive buddy film. Yes, the whole thing was animated by computer, but that's not the big news. It's that director John Lasseter is the year's most impressive new comedy visionary...
...small group of students huddled in the cold in front of University Hall yesterday. They had gagged themselves with strips of cloth--symbols, they said, of the University's disregard for their voice in the choice of Judith H. Kidd as the new assistant dean for public service...
...Andy's bedroom the toys are alive. They are also working stiffs with the fear, every time a birthday approaches, that they will be replaced by more sophisticated gewgaws. Toy Town's leader, a cloth cowboy named Sheriff Woody (wonderfully voiced by Tom Hanks), talks to his charges as if he's a genial teacher and they are slow kids. Actually, they're finicky adults. Rex (Wallace Shawn), a sexually insecure dinosaur, dreams of being "the dominant predator." Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles) grumbles about planned obsolescence while praying that Andy's new prized toy will be Mrs. Potato Head...