Word: fox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Carol Fox, 55, feisty, determined co-founder of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, who, as its general manager for 25 years, helped build it into one of the country's leading opera companies; of a heart attack; in Chicago. A former voice student, Fox gave Maria Callas her U.S. debut and brought so many top-ranked Italian singers to the Lyric that the company was dubbed "La Scala West...
...John B. Fox Jr. '60, dean of the College, who coordinated the first investigation of Schieffelin's activities at Harvard, yesterday declined to comment on the continuing investigation...
...late afternoon, a mostly middle-aged and middle-class throng had converged on the Hyatt's expansive lobby for another in a popular new series of weekly dances. Admittance required only a fondness for the fox trot. "Tea dances," the promoters were billing these mildly recherche gatherings: Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington tunes were featured, and Friday's Big Band, Steve Miller and His Orchestra, had played the occasions before. The hotel has a ballroom, but the glassy lobby is nearly as large and, in the fading summer light, far more inspiring...
...Fox and the Hound is a chase movie, an essay in dramatic movement comprising approximately 360,000 drawings and 110,000 painted eels, projected at 24 frames a second. As Tod and Copper learn more about themselves and each other while on the run, so the young Disney artists making their feature-film debut here realize the emotive and kinetic power of animation in the chase sequences. They are as finely shaped and paced as the desert drive in Raiders of the Lost Ark-and almost as violent. More important, they suggest a dimension of conflict within as well...
Instead, they can savor the serious pleasures of The Fox and the Hound and, with the rise of a talented new generation of Disney animators, look for greater pleasures to come. -By Richard Corliss