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...this time, he was virtually a different person. What pissed off his new fans--the ones who saw the brilliance of "Roadrunner" and wanted more--was that his new songs weren't just happier; they really were directed at infants. He sang songs like "Hey There Little Insect" and "I'm A Little Dinosaur" and "Here Come the Martian Martians." He stopped playing with professional musicians and picked strangers out of the audience at concerts; they'd drum for him using rolled up newspapers. It took him a couple of years, but by 1979's Back in Your Life...
...been unparalleled in itsability to flesh out the imagined world, and makeit move. The shift from two dimensions to threemakes the fantasy more believable than everbefore. Possibly the most delightful aspect ofAntz is puzzling over whether bugs reallydo these things, or if one is confusing gradeschool Bio with popular insect mythology...
...animators who envisioned Antz hadlong wanted to use the insect world as a forum forcomputer animation technology, and it is onto thisgraphic interest that the storyline issuperimposed. It was a good pick. Thoughartificial imitation of lifelike movement isquickly improving, it still lags behind real life,and its best approximation is hand drawn 2-Danimation. Because insects are commonly depictedin the media through a time-lapse photographytechnique, jerky, almost mechanistic movement inthe ant-characters is exactly what one wouldexpect. By altering the subject from human toinsect, the flawed technology seems spot...
...watched his father slip into the fog of Alzheimer's disease and his mother suffer a crippling stroke. And Buffett very nearly died two years ago, when the vintage seaplane he was piloting crashed and flipped during takeoff from Nantucket Harbor, leaving him dazed and "hanging like a captured insect" in a cockpit filling with water. After he clawed his way out of the wreckage, he says, "it was time to take a little inventory...
...early ballets, Robbins favored clear-cut dramatic situations. "What really interests me," he said in 1958, "is the conduct of man, the rites he performs to face the mysteries of life." The Cage portrays a tribe of ferocious, insect-like women who kill the men with whom they mate; in Afternoon of a Faun, two dancers meet in a studio for a sensuous yet self-absorbed encounter that ends in an oddly tentative kiss. Later, Robbins adopted the plotless style of Balanchine, his mentor and idol, firmly denying that his new works were "about" anything but movement and music. Dancegoers...