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...Animators' Palate, where for dessert they get to "paint" their own sundae with chocolate, strawberry and mango sauces. Then it's off to one of three Broadway-style shows, which, as of last week, needed a lot of doctoring. One, a pirate yarn called Voyage of the Ghost Ship, is a calamity unworthy of the Disney name...
...been forgotten by the masses. His image--a marketable picture of a smiling boy wearing a M*A*S*H shirt and giving his photographers a wave--lives on, reproduced on t-shirts, in the British tabloids, on television and on propaganda posters. It is, however, but the ghost of person--a voodoo doll that, when pricked, creates an automatic yelp from hundreds of protesters...
...Unpainted Sculpture, 1997. He found a Pontiac Grand Am that had been totaled in a crash that killed the driver, and then proceeded to dissect out each of its hundreds of distorted parts, make fiberglass copies of them, paint them a uniform light gray and reassemble them as a ghost wreck: maximum violence contradicted by a sort of plodding cool...
...lost a great fish. She didn't know him, she writes, and wasn't able to comfort him, or help him laugh it off, or pretend that the failure was O.K. She certainly did not understand what became apparent later, that Greg's real passion, his father's ghost mocking him cruelly, was to dress in women's clothes. And in middle age, sober, married, a mother and a novelist (Walking into the River), she still can't quite accept this joker in the hand life dealt her. She writes, "There are no greeting cards that read, 'Thinking...
...this day. One of his most disturbing but beautiful scenes occurs when the narrator watches the men of the neighborhood set bonfires to burn rats out of defunct air raid shelters. Imagine the wonders he can work when satirizing a sadistically strict math teacher or when describing the ghost of the narrator's little sister. Another ghost story, related by the narrator's aunt by way of Henry James' Turn of the Screw, gains spookiness in the retelling. And the sex talk kindly given the narrator by an avuncular priest, which leads the boy to conclude that "love...