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...twin towers that loomed so large in my youth were gone—and I had not been there to say goodbye. New hot neighborhoods—like the Brooklyn blocks whimsically dubbed DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)—had sprung up without me to gaze in their shop windows. And a new mayor had wiped out the city’s recycling program and banished smoke clouds from sidewalk cafes...
...Hong Kong, a city of shrewd dealmakers, is left looking Dumbo for failing to get a noncompete clause in writing?which the Paris and Tokyo Disneylands had both secured. Still, Michael Chin, senior director of PricewaterhouseCoopers's North Asia leisure industry consulting group, believes China's huge population "is big enough to support both parks easily." It's not such a small world, after...
CDIED. WARD KIMBALL, 88, irreverent, pioneering Disney animator--one of the elite early group called the Nine Old Men--who directed animation on such films as Fantasia, Dumbo and Cinderella; in Arcadia, Calif. Kimball gave a makeover to Mickey Mouse and created Jiminy Cricket, the wisecracking, top-hatted character in Pinocchio. He won an Oscar for his 1969 animated short It's Tough to Be a Bird...
DIED. BILL PEET, 87, Disney artist and writer whose vivid stories were instrumental in defining the studio; in Studio City, Calif. Second only to Walt Disney in his talent for cartoon storytelling, Peet wrote the screenplay for 101 Dalmatians, created Dumbo and contributed to Fantasia, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. After retiring from animation in the mid-1960s, he wrote award-winning children's books...
...number on it is a whole different ball of wax. Besides, since when was the 40th percentile average? That means 60 percent of kids who take this test do better than he did. For a while we started referring to him, when he wasn't around, as "Dumbo," or "the Brainiac." Our friends, whose kids got somewhere in the 80s, all assured us the test didn't mean a thing, except that he's not going to that fancy preschool. But once someone has come out and said it, it's hard to shake the notion that your kid might...