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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...
...streamlined its West German operations and replaced the legendary-but increasingly unexciting -Beetle with the faster, jauntier Rabbit (TIME, Feb. 2). Those measures boosted profits in Europe, but left Volkswagen with an almost insuperable problem in the U.S.: repeatedly the West German mark has jumped in value against the dollar, making VWs more expensive for American buyers. In 1970 the cheapest model sold for $1,839 in the U.S.; today it goes...
...state of the nation is often reflected by the mood of its President-and John Kennedy has never seemed in jauntier spirits or more in command...
...believe Mr. Thurber's friend [see cut] wears a wider smile and carries its tail at a jauntier angle because it has just discovered it is not herbivorous at all. It enjoyed its meal of Millmoss thoroughly...