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Gore said all communities should pursue their plans, even if they don't receive federal funding. The vice president compared the situation facing these communities to the story of Dumbo and his magic feather...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Gore Advocates Empowerment | 12/7/1993 | See Source »

...Dumbo] dropped the feather--and discovered he could fly anyway," Gore said. "The secret wasn't his feather--but his big ears...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Gore Advocates Empowerment | 12/7/1993 | See Source »

...three- year-old daughter made that declaration. We thought we were doing everything right to develop her self-esteem and positive racial identity. We overloaded her toy box with black dolls. We carefully monitored the racial content of TV shows and videos, ruling out Song of the South and Dumbo, two classic Disney movies marred by demeaning black stereotypes. But we saw no harm in Pinocchio, which seemed as racially benign as Sesame Street or Barney, and a good deal more engaging. Yet now our daughter was saying she wanted to be white, to be like the puppet who becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Up in Black and White | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

...entrepreneur Lawrence Wilsher is offering the public single shares, appropriately framed, of the Walt Disney Co. He sells the certificates not for their face value but rather for their worth as actual works of art -- replete with Walt's visage and images of such classic Disney characters as Bambi, Dumbo and Mickey. Wilsher's mixing of art and finance earned the scrutiny of the Securities and Exchange Commission, but the agency has confirmed that he does not have to register as a broker as long as he offers only framed certificates at well above market price. He charges $112, frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of the Deal | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...half an hour onscreen, the Genie makes dozens of eyeblink metamorphoses: a Scotsman, a Scots dog, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Senor Wences, Ed Sullivan, Groucho Marx, a French waiter, a turkey, the crows from Dumbo, Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, a rabbit, a dinosaur, William F. Buckley Jr., Robert De Niro, a stewardess, a bashful sheep, Pinocchio, a magician, a Jean Gabin-style Frenchman, Sebastian the crab from The Little Mermaid, Arsenio Hall, a finicky tailor, Walter Brennan, a TV parade host and hostess, Ethel Merman, Rodney Dangerfield, Jack Nicholson, a talking lampshade, a bee, a U- boat, a one-man band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aladdin's Magic | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

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