Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ogden gave up a profitable insurance business in Elizabeth, N.J. in 1929 to move to Landgrove. With his own vision and his own hands he helped build it into a summer resort, a winter mecca for skiers. He helped improve streets and schools; in the Legislature he worked for forest and wildlife conservation. And he learned how to talk to the Vermont people...
This week she will try for the U.S. Women's championship at the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills. Her competition will be less tough than it might have been-Defending Champion Sarah Palfrey Cooke has abdicated her crown in favor of an expected baby. Consequently California's latest comet is favored to win. If she does, she will be the youngest women's champion since Helen Wills (who first won the title...
Bambi is the brown-eyed, white-scutted fawn of Felix Salten's somewhat candied forest idyl. Disney animates Bambi from birth to buck. He is an appealing, wonderfully articulated little deer, whose progressive discoveries of rain, snow, ice, the seasons, man, love, death, etc. make a neatly antlered allegory. Bambi's rubber-jointed, slack-limbed, coltish first steps in the art of walking are, even for Disney, inspired animation. The undying affection bestowed on him by a young skunk, whom Bambi inadvertently names Flower, is grade-A Disney. His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops...
...cuteness. He also loses his baby voice, his spots, his mother. The hunters, who kill her, hunt Bambi and his bride, a doe named Faline. A pack of nightmarish hounds with luminous fangs (probably the most terrifying curs since Cerberus) attack them. Then a fire burns up the forest. It also burns up Disney's delicate fantasy...
...done his backgrounds in oils instead of watercolors. The result is striking. The russet reds, browns, bright yellows, make autumn look like autumn. Each season has a special color impact. The colors are softer, more alive and, with the aid of the multiplane camera, give the picture solidity, the forest a three-dimensional depth...