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DIED. WALTER LANTZ, 93, animator; in Burbank, California. "Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha! Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha!" The maniacal chortle of Lantz's Woody Woodpecker is probably the most universally recognized laugh since Santa Claus first ho-ho-hoed -- an enduring, if somewhat annoying, piece of Americana. Lantz, known more for his craftsmanship than his originality, ran his own animation studio by the late 1920s, where he produced the first Technicolor cartoon and a host of characters like Andy Panda and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. None came close to the success of Woody Woodpecker, who first hit the screen...
...smoking ruins. All the sorghum stored by the farmers had been looted or torched, and when the seasonal rains failed the following month, the villagers were forced once again to turn to international agencies for food. "The troops brought us no change at all," says Mohammed with a grim laugh...
...also conceivable that the commissioners will reach as high as the Defense Minister, who also happens to be Prime Minister Rabin. If so, he might be compelled to step down. Then Baruch Goldstein would have a hearty laugh from the grave. His aim was to destroy the Middle East peace process, and nothing would accomplish that better than the fall of Yitzhak Rabin...
There's nothing East Coasters like better than to point their fingers at Southern California and laugh...
...Monday that Martin Marietta's offer was fully $18 over Grumman's recent $37 price -- and $10 more than most of the contracts the two traders had written. That huge gap left them with the bulk of a $2 million shortfall. "I was depressed," says Taylor with a wry laugh...