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...punish China for the 1989 crackdown, it announced plans last week to unleash retaliatory tariffs worth up to $1.5 billion on Chinese exports. The reason: disregard by the Chinese for U.S. patents and copyrights covering books, audio and video recordings, computer software and such quintessentially American creations as Walt Disney's favorite rodent. The Chinese rarely pay for the use of such "intellectual property," resulting in serious losses to U.S. businesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade: Hands Off Our Thoughts! | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. One day your kids will be taking their kids to this sumptuous Disney cartoon. Adults will be touched too, by a parable about the tyranny of convention and the liberation of love. It's also about magic mirrors, singing candlesticks and the art of drawing pictures that move people. A fairy tale for all ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 2, 1991 | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...splendid conspiracy, two new films insist on being stared at. They can get away with this affront to dullness because they are for kids, whose eyes have not yet been educated to squint, and because they have the cartoonish spirit. Beauty and the Beast, a fairy tale, is Disney's 30th animated feature; The Addams Family, a comic ghost story, is a flip book based on Charles Addams' drawings. Both films are defiantly artificial, with fancy musical numbers and design schemes that carry not only the mood but most of the humor. And both movies have talking furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keep An Eye on the Furniture | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

...David Ogden Stiers) and armoires (Jo Anne Worley). In the Be Our Guest number, watch closely for the swimming spoons, the dishes stacked in Eiffel Tower formation, the tankards in chorale. The voluptuousness of visual detail offers proof, if any more were needed after The Little Mermaid, that the Disney studio has relocated the pure magic of the Pinocchio-Dumbo years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keep An Eye on the Furniture | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

...CINEMA A Disney Beauty and The Addams Family: the cartoon spirit lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

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