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...extrude four-lane highways; cities spring from the bush; hotels float underwater; moon hostels house whoever gets there. FORD. Instead of a Ford in your future, you can put one in your past-on the Magic Skyway, a superb bit of showmanship. In a Ford, you will scoot around Disney dinosaurs, watch a two-story Tyrannosaurus rex getting the best of a tough old Stegosaurus, and pop in on a happy household of hairy Homo sapiens...
ILLINOIS. Honest Abe sits somber and silent in a high-back chair, rises, bows, and delivers a 10-min. oration. Disney's Lincoln is a little stolid, but then he is stuffed with things like steel, air tubes and hydraulic valves...
SINCLAIR. For the kids, Disney and dinosaurs practically carry the fair. It's the reptiles that have invaded Sinclair's ginkgo tree grove. The saurus family-Ankylo, Stego, Tyranno and big brother Bronto -stand around as if they couldn't believe that mammals had inherited the earth. While the others gnash their teeth, Bronto -all five tons of him-just stands there and blinks...
PEPSI-COLA. A gallimaufry of Walt Disney's latest prodigious puppets, which also perk up the pavilions of Ford, General Electric and Illinois. Here a waterjet whips through a dreamland dollhouse filled with belly dancers, French cancan girls, Cossacks and slinky Egyptian beauties, singing, twisting and kicking like crazy...
...Stars and Men, however, was made by a man who cares very much about what he has to say and how he means to say it. John Hubley learned his trade in Disney's shop, later developed a moneymaking style of his own (Gerald McBoing Boing, Mr. Magoo). But at 50 he aspires to be a serious graphic artist, a Matisse of animation...