Word: headed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SEAMAN A Sega Dreamcast game and the newest in virtual pets, the Seaman has a man's head and a fish's body, with voice recognition and Furby-like learning abilities...
...main cavils about Mononoke are that it is too bloody (the battle scenes feature many decapitations and dis-armings) and that at 2 hr. 13 min., it is nearly an hour longer than most cartoon features. "We had to confront the issue of violence head on," Miyazaki says. "Children already know all too well the violence that resides inside them and the violence that pervades the world around them. If we wanted to speak out about this question, we had to incorporate realistic violence in the film. I also agree it's too long. If only I were more blessed...
...nearly 200 years the tale has kept children awake and atremble--or lulled them to sleep with Washington Irving's drolly orotund style. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is still a bedtime staple in tonier households, and with its Headless Horseman hurling a grimacing pumpkin at the head of Ichabod Crane, the story helped create the American giddying-up of Halloween as a funny fright night. But like so many old fables, Sleepy Hollow is chiefly remembered in its Disney version. That 1958 cartoon short, a genial mix of comedy and anxiety, took its tone from the voice...
...April 1998, one month before Kipland Kinkel embarked on a shooting rampage in Springfield, Ore., that killed his father, mother and two students and wounded 25 others, he yelled out in class, "Goddam these voices in my head!" He was disciplined for swearing, but no one paid much mind to those voices...
Though he kept his head down for much of the hearing, Kinkel met the eyes of his victims when they spoke. "I am very sorry for everything I have done," he said, "and for what I have become...