Word: disneyish
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...only real singer in the ensemble, and her voice in song had a sweetness that disappeared in the exaggerated emphasis of her speech. Her character was an obvious spinoff of the book-loving Belle of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, down to the sweet if slight, Broadway-Disneyish lyrics: "Books are better than love." Even her foils, the three brightly-clad senoritas--Lolita (Debbie Hunter '00), Rosita (Jasmin Roman '00), and Marguerita (Shannon Tracey '00)--who coo over the very name of El Bean, were clearly modeled after the three blondes who pine after macho-man Gaston...
Other pieces of Expo have altogether different ambitions; they are neither good nor bad, exactly, but something else -- Disneyish. The Saudi pavilion, a fake Arab ruin into which a fake nomadic hovel has been inserted, is like a second-rate SITE rip-off -- except that SITE actually designed it. The South Pacific pavilion is a compound of grass huts (or was -- it burned down last week, but is to be rebuilt promptly). New Zealand's conventional steel-and- glass facade gives way at one end to a rugged Pacific promontory, complete with recorded ocean noises, artificial stones and plastic seabirds...
...photographs you used of the frescoes before cleaning look disgustingly cruddy, while those taken afterward are washed down, inpainted and appallingly Disneyish. It is true that Michelangelo's lunettes had suffered from water seepage and required some restoration, but the vast barrel vault itself was relatively pristine; it did not need cleaning. The frescoes now present a fresh Michelangelo whose tie has been straightened to the strangulation point and whose ears are scoured until the ears themselves disappear. The "conservation" that has been done on the Sistine Chapel may be good for tourism, but it is death for the frescoes...
...spring after all, when Crimson editors wax poetical (or Disneyish anyway) over budding flowers and young love and billing Birds and buzzing bees and I dare say that this album will fill the AM bands all this summer and midnight FM specials for the more snobbish of us rock-audiences all the next year when WRKO and the like have worn out their copies of the record. This band sings "Everything I need" (and you need and they all need) and it turns out to be nothing more elaborate than the litanied spring chorus "Baby, won't you hold...
There was nothing Disneyish about the goings-on - no frogs dancing the frug, no kissing coots. When a leopard set out to stalk a wildebeest in a recent episode, the victim all too surely was brought to earth. "If you are going to show the truth," said Kingdom's Producer Don Meier, "you cannot avoid the proposition that tooth-and-claw battles take place every day in the wild kingdom. We would be doing a dis service to our viewers if we glossed that over." Realism has paid off. Wild Kingdom, carried on 185 NBC stations, stands...