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...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...
...falling production and profits, fast price rises and sky-high borrowing costs. Lionel D. Edie & Co., a New York economic consulting firm, cautioned clients in mid-August that the indicators showed no clear signal, but its latest advisory predicts a recovery starting in the fourth quarter. Dr. F. Thomas Juster, vice president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, which decides what business movements should be deemed "recessions," says he now doubts that the bureau will call the present trend by that politically charged name...