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...eyes are a little less sore these days, now that the Globe has decided to can the computerized mug shots of its columnists. Is it me, or did Dan Shaughnessy look like he belonged in the Disney movie, Tron? And Mike Madden looked like Mike Dukakis' younger brother. That's scary...
Some industry watchers think American could turn to hometown partners for help. Rumor had it that certain members of the billionaire Bass family of Fort Worth might take a large friendly stake in the company, as they did to protect the Walt Disney Co. from a raid several years ago. Or Crandall might borrow money to create an Employee Stock Ownership Plan to achieve the same goal...
Donald Duck should be thankful he is a Disney cartoon character and not a real bird at Walt Disney World's Discovery Island zoological park. After a two- month investigation by the Florida game and freshwater fish commission, the state attorney's office and the Federal Government have filed suit against the company and five employees for alleged cruelty to animals. Among the charges: firing rifles at hawks, beating vultures to death with sticks, and disturbing the nests and eggs of egrets...
...apparent attempt to control the bird population, Disney had asked for a license to relocate protected wildlife away from the theme park, where they annoyed tourists and destroyed property. But for some of the island's vultures, in particular, relocation became extermination. Game officials, alerted to the situation last June by an anonymous phone tip, were horrified to discover 18 dehydrated black vultures and one carcass stuffed into a small airless shed without adequate food or water; employees admitted that the shed once held more than 70 birds. Disney, which has appointed a panel of environmentalists and ornithologists to rectify...
Evidently, these unsavory vermin are intended to represent fragments of Ronald Ann's ghetto-formed imagination. Get it? Instead of clean, Walt Disney fantasy figures, she conjures up polluted, harsh types--the tarnished ideals that a ghetto child might create...