Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some rival St. Louis bankers complain, though, that Long is merely a "publicity hound" who can easily afford to slash the prime rate because Southwest has few commercial borrowers paying the low level of interest. Business lending amounts to only about 11% of Southwest's credit portfolio. The bank specializes in mortgage and installment loans to customers in its immediate, largely Italian, neighborhood...
...Wall Drug, road-weary visitors are faced with a bewildering pastiche of class and kitsch. The store sells $200 Tony Lama boots-as well as $2.19 models of Mount Rushmore and corncob toilet paper for $1.19. Left-handed calf ropers can buy lariats twisted especially for southpaws. The Rock Hound Shop offers fossils and crystals. Campers buy heavy iron skillets, lightweight canteens and water-purifying tablets; ranchers buy lousefly killer, sheep-branding liquid and cow vaccine. God knows who buys hundreds upon hundreds of Wall Drug gimcracks, from spoon holders to ashtrays. "People want a little something they can take...
...film tracks the entwined lives of Tod and Copper, first as frolicking youngsters, then as troubled adversaries all too aware of the genetic imperative. The title states the dilemma succinctly: Tod is a fox, and Copper a hound. One must be chased, caught and killed by the other. These are the roles they were born-and perhaps must die-to play, and no childhood bond can change them...
...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 as between the antagonists...
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