Word: cuter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the '50s-since Bambi in 1942, some would say-the reduction has gone even further, acting on Disney's earlier work in a steady process of self-cannibalization that increases to the extent that the early Disney is seen as high art. The animals get cuter and more anthropomorphic, the forest glade more compulsively spotless, the characters blander; and having deprived Mickey of his rattishness, Donald Duck of his foul and treacherous temper, the Disney studio had no qualms about ruining Alice in Wonderland or Kipling's Jungle Book for the kids as well. Yet within...
...death. It is a very important lesson, one I was particularly glad to see the movie people had not altered for the sake of a happy ending. Physically, however, my friends and I look different from Mr. Garth Williams' definitive illustrations in the book. We have been made cuter, which I suppose is nothing to complain about...
...screen Fritz enacts the essential Crumb pose of a phony out for pleasure under moralistic guises. He sees through all the other phonies and beats them at their game by living out his fantasies in fact. But this Fritz is enveloped with his animator's love (he's even cuter facially than the original). Whenever he falls, he just picks himself up and starts all over again. Watching his animal erection gets dull and there's no tension to the drama...
...recalls, WMCA created a Smilie similar to the curren version as part of a promotion campaign for the Good Guys, the station's disk-jockey team at the time. "Ours had a few wisps of hair on the top," he recalls, "and I think it was cuter." WMCA handed out thousands of Good Guy sweatshirts during the 1964-66 period and a few still can be seen around the city today. One of them may have inspired the artists of the N.G. Slater Corp., which caused the smile epidemic when it began producing Smilie buttons two years ago. After...
...cuter killer exists than Salem (Max von Sydow), doomed to spend his life in a lunatic asylum. Framed for a homicide he did not commit, Salem becomes as vengeful as Dracula. Alone, he contrives to exit his maximum-security cell clothed only in socks, shoes, T shirt and briefs-in the dead of winter. With unrefined malice, he dispatches the framers, among them his sister (Liv Ullman), his mistress and a lawyer. Some are garroted, others drugged or axed to death. Then Salem undoes his escape, hustles back through the snow, ascends a stone wall just slightly less perilous than...