Word: jauntier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looks backwards to childhood, where early Modern Lovers songs like "Dignified and Old" looked towards the future for happiness. But the song most similar to the early Modern Lovers feel is "The Night Is Still Young," which has Richman driving around looking for a party. Although far jauntier than "Roadrunner," comparing the two songs allows one to see the constants in Richman's music...
Harryhausen was a master of stop-motion, the laborious, handmade form of animation that lives today in the work of Oscar winner Nick Park (A Close Shave) and Selick, whose previous feature was Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. This is a jauntier piece--more Disneyfied, perhaps, but still apt to leave a haunting impression on the children who see it. And when they finally read the Dahl book, they may be annoyed. Why, they will wonder, couldn't it be more like this movie...