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...over who swarm to his Valley Island by the thousands, bearing millions. They do not come to Maui for the Don Ho-hula-grass skirt-sarong-muumuu-mai tai-lei-and-luau scenario that, in mainlanders' eyes at least, has become to Hawaii what Mickey Mouse is to Disney World or the one-armed bandit to Las Vegas. They come for some of the world's most spectacular scenery and a variety of activities unmatched by any comparable area on earth. They come to sun, snorkel, scuba, skinny-dip, surf, sail and swim at 33 miles of superb...
...Leave It to Beaver suburban world of the American '50s, the family and the child were enveloped in a cherishing mythology. Americans, it was even said, had grown obsessively kiddified; they were child-worshipers who sentimentalized their offspring in a complacent land of Little League and Disney. Toward the end of the Eisenhower years, the literary critic Leslie Fiedler wrote a lively diatribe about the "cult of the child," which he denounced as "this most maudlin of primitivisms...
...young and staying young has led to the phenomenon of almost permanently deferred adulthood. "I know 50-year-olds who are still kids," says Social Analyst Michael Novak. "They're in the playground of the world: single, unattached, self-fulfilling, self-centered. People are trying to make little Disney Worlds of detachment for themselves." For such people, parenthood is an intrusion of responsibility, of potential disappointment and, ultimately, of mortality. The kids are a memento mori...
...universe out of the mouth of a babe or a devil is no shock to anyone familiar with the metamorphoses of animation, where anything you can draw is true. Any effect can follow from any cause, and we accept those vibrating colors and lines as alive. Who needs Disney? The colors don't have to be solid or stay inside the black lines. We'll believe...
...needs Disney, indeed. These eight weeks of animation--this weekend is the third--were kicked off by the auspicious "Thirteenth International Tournee of Animation." Center Screen's showings at Carpenter Center of independent films are matched only by the Whitney Museum and Film Forum in New York. Here in Cambridge the Off the Wall Theater in Central Square screens the only other on-going series of short movies, animation included, around metropolitan Boston. As Barry Levine, program director for Center Screen, put it, "It is appropriate that Center Screen be the largest independent animation showcase in the country, because Harvard...