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...TEAM DISNEY OFFICE, LAKE BUENA VISTA...
...Disney's patronage of famous architects has produced many entertaining buildings. Now it has produced a great one. Arata Isozaki's office block at Walt Disney World manages to be both utilitarian and whimsical, to convey a sense of gravitas and architectural boogie-woogie. For a company that prides itself on extreme frugality and makes a virtue of simplemindedness, Isozaki's building is happily improbable. After entering via a large red granite cube punched with dozens of not exactly functional windows, the army of bean counters who work there pass through a 120-ft.-tall, open-to-the-sky cylinder...
There's plenty of animation dazzle in Disney's latest tuneful fable; the Be Our Guest number manages to evoke both Busby Berkeley and the Folies-Bergere. But Beauty swaps the buoyancy of Disney's last great cartoon feature, The | Little Mermaid, for poignancy and emotional depth. That's fine too since, at heart, this story is about a man's need to evoke fear when he is really afraid, and a woman's need to pity a man before she can love...
There's plenty of animation dazzle in Disney's latest tuneful fable; the Be Our Guest number manages to evoke both Busby Berkeley and the Folies-Bergere. But Beauty swaps the buoyancy of Disney's last great cartoon feature, The Little Mermaid, for poignancy and emotional depth. That's fine too since, at heart, this story is about a man's need to evoke fear when he is really afraid, and a woman's need to pity a man before she can love...
...become the fourth most respected brand name in the U.S., according to a recent poll of 2,000 people, ranked just behind the Disney parks, Kodak and Mercedes-Benz and ahead of Rolex, Levi's, IBM and AT&T. (ABC, NBC and CBS were not offered by the opinion seekers.) As a source of knowledge in turbulent times, CNN may be without peer. "Ted Turner is probably the pre- eminent publisher in America today, maybe in the world," says Don Hewitt, founding producer of 60 Minutes on CBS. "When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went...