Word: fantasia
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...spine of every ornate gable and cupola. The capacious lobby, with its 40-ft. ceiling, beckons you to collapse into its deep sofas and get toasty at the mammoth fireplace. In the guest rooms, a sculpture of Tinkerbell graces the highboy; in the bathrooms, Hyacinth Hippo, in her Fantasia tutu, cavorts in various poses on the bathtub tile...
...Rainbow," which stands out because of the unusual pitch in which Tikaram sings and its unexpected, almost pop-like melody. The song itself is an outcome of a remark that a friend of Tikaram's made to her after both of them had finished watching the Disney movie Fantasia. Tikaram's friend mentioned that it would be great to write a song about drinking the rainbow. The imagery appealed to Tikaram, who already had considered an idea for song about someone who wanted something passionately and was willing to make sacrifices to achieve it. She combined the two ideas...
...Fantasia Friday: 3:45 p.m. Saturday and Sunday: noon...
...many ways can crybabies parse shame and blame? In San Francisco last month, a motley flock turned out to picket the classic Disney movie Fantasia. One man complained that the spooky Night on Bald Mountain scene had terrified his child. Members of an organization called Dieters United objected to the tutu-clad hippos frolicking to the music of Dance of the Hours; the protesters felt the sequence ridiculed fat people. Conservationists were appalled at the waste of water in Sorcerer's Apprentice. Fundamentalist Christians bewailed ) the depiction of evolution in Rite of Spring. Antidrug forces suspected something subliminally prodrug...
...vast, empty, rendered in subtle pastels and often seen from radically high or low angles -- where only grownup man, the poacher, is vile. The film's designers speak of Gustave Dore as an inspiration, but their use of geologic mass may also remind viewers of the Creation sequence in Fantasia. And their vision of the eagle recalls Fantasia's prehistoric creatures...