Word: juster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million dead, at least for people--if there are any--personally untouched by the war. But however appalling they found the prospect of indefinite misrule by the United States and its Vietnamese collaborators, it seems unlikely that the Vietnamese consciously chose a fifteen-year struggle for a juster society with full knowledge that their tremulous victory would be realized in an Indochina unrecognizable and half-destroyed. Though the Vietnamese might like to let a hundred flowers bloom we have defoliated the forests; and it is difficult to build anything with mutilated hands...
...Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster, Random House...
...live" comedies. Nor is it lost on Chuck Jones, perhaps the foremost observer of the Disney fun factory. Scenarist-Director Jones, illustrator of many a Bugs Bunny and creator of Roadrunner, is the animating force behind The Phantom Tollbooth, his first full-length feature. It is based on Norton Juster's ten-year-old classic juvenile novel...
...Juster's novel, the most effective wedding of allegory and whimsy since Oz, failed in only one sense; its brusque illustrations by Jules Feiffer were out of keeping with the fanciful story. The animation is a much happier complement to the adventure. Ironically, it is the plot that bogs the film down. More than 20 characters are thrown at the audience in 90 minutes; children will barely be able to recognize them before they disappear forever. Morever, such villains as the Lethargians are a thousand times more delightful than the vapid Rhyme and Reason, a pair gooey and artificial...
...Norton Juster...