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JENSEN FARLEY PICTURES' animated fairy tale The Last Unicorn confirms, by default, that only Walt Disney had what it takes. Although Unicorn contains some innovatively clever characters, the piece as a whole lacks the fluidity of images, the magnificance of each character's movements, and the timelessness of plot that give Walt Disney productions their eternal appeal. Like other recent endeavors to animate fantasy books--Tolkien's The Hobbit, for example--the adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's novel The Last Unicorn fails to capture through animation all the intricacies of plot and description usually woven by words...
Petrucelli said yesterday that if Harvard had not met the deadline, he would have asked the Court to declare the University in default...
...International Monetary Fund. The need for American economic support will probably ensure at least one warm welcome for Reagan; as Business week has noted, "Costa Rica...guarantees Reagan a friendly reception because President Luis Monge knows that U.S. backing is the only thing standing between his country and financial default...
This fall, whether by design or default, Hollywood has released only one hit movie (Sylvester Stallone's First Blood) and one critical success (My Favorite Year, starring Peter O'Toole). Many of the other Hollywood pictures this season were not so much launched as dumped-dropped into autumn because they were thought likely to fail against summer or Christmas competition. Frank Price, chairman of Columbia Pictures, which is releasing only the English comedy The Missionary between September and November, sees an answer in the recent past: "Last fall most movies, including the adult films, just didn...
...problem seemed to start in the basement and work its way up the left side of the building," said Patricia L. Default, administrative assistant at the Warren Center...