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...evil characters show glimpses of animated genius. Every detail of the red-pink bull steams with uncontrollable evil--especially the transparency of its imposing body. Two peripheral characters--Captain Cully the peg-legged pirate cat and a pile of bones forming a distorted skeleton--momentarily memorize the audience, as doss the terrifying flying beast Harpy, the evil counterpart of the unicorn. Otherwise, a dearth of fluid detail hampers the illusion...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: An Inanimate Fantasy | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...START a starter? No one knows for sure. Officials at the Department of State -abbreviated as DOS, but never called "Doss"-have taken another firm stand against creeping cuteness. They say it will take an official order for them to start saying START. The CIA is keeping its view secret. Nor is there a consensus at Rostow's ACDA, which has a problem of its own-Congress is planning to drop "Disarmament" from its title, so a way must be found to pronounce ACA ("Assa" does not seem right) or have it revert to being simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can START Be Stopped? | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...Henry Doss of Chicago kept a .38-cal. revolver for protection at the West Side gas station where he worked as an attendant. Early one Sunday morning, while attempting to thwart a robbery, he pulled the trigger and accidentally killed his 14-year-old son, who was wrestling with the intruder. The intruder was a 16-year-old girl who was packing her own .32-cal. pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Battle Against the Gun | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...part of all that I have met" syndrome whereby the man of action records no inner feelings which do not readily follow the logic of the events in which he is partaking. In accordance with this and with the Hollywood approach to everything in general. Foreman's screen adaptation doss not tap any deep springs of character or political behavior. What we get instead is a robust action flick far above the usual cut, interspersed with the documentary machinery of early rotogravure photographs on mahogany bureaus, newsreel clips of the real Winston, and a decent imitation of Churchill's familiar...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: Churchill: Now More Than Ever | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...Felucca's hearing for unlawful flight in Philadelphia, Larry E. Doss, an FBI agent, testified that Valerie de-the country and attack police powers. scribed the group's objectives "To break down the military structures of Doss said the group was not associated with other "New Left" groups, but did intend to use the money to finance its operations through bank robberies...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs and Michael B. Mccarthy, S | Title: When the trial for these suspects ends, people are going to be very bewildered about... 'why?' | 10/6/1970 | See Source »

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