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YELLOW SUBMARINE. The Beatles appear in cartoon form as the stars of this eclectic animated film about a voyage to Pepperland on a yellow submarine. The real star of the trip, however, is Animator Heinz Edelmann, whose visual puns and graphic artistry dazzle...
YELLOW SUBMARINE. The Beatles are the nominal heroes of this fey animated film about a trip to Pepperland aboard a yellow submarine. Viewers may find themselves paying most of their attention to the visual puns and graphic artistry of Designer Heinz Edelmann...
YELLOW SUBMARINE. The Beatles are the nominal heroes of this fey animated film about a trip to Pepperland aboard a yellow submarine. Viewers, however, may well find themselves paying more attention to the visual puns and graphic artistry of Animator Heinz Edelmann...
...Jungle, published in 1906, which told the harrowing story of a Lithuanian immigrant worker in Chicago's meat-packing industry. Though Sinclair's main intention was to dramatize the plight of a helpless proletarian, he described the then prevalent filth and brutality of the industry in shockingly graphic terms. The Jungle, turned down by five publishers before Doubleday, Page & Co. accepted it, was front-page news and an instant bestseller. Meat sales slumped throughout the U.S. Within months, Congress passed the nation's first pure-foods law and required more than cursory federal meat inspection. Said Sinclair...
With appropriately graphic, and occasionally very funny, antique engravings to illustrate the text, the author deftly deals with the genesis (and sometimes the subsequent exodus from the language) of more than 100 collective nouns (a gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, a skulk of foxes, a labor of moles), most of which began in the 1400s in England as precise terms of venery. Happily, the collection has continued to grow during the intervening centuries: a shrivel of critics, an unction of undertakers (which, in larger groups, becomes an extreme unction of undertakers), and a swish of hairdressers. Etymology...