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Even the star-studded cast of voices and the original music and lyrics of Jimmy Webb can't maintain a patchy plot. Hearing Mis Farrow as the Unicorn. Alan Arkin as Schmedrick, and Jeff Bridges as Prince Lir if anything detracts further from the movie's fluidity; their professional voices are too trained and rhythmic to be convincingly dubbed onto cartoons...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: An Inanimate Fantasy | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

Perhaps the most moving passage mourns the extinction of folk music in the Soviet Union. Shostakovich tells a story about the blind folk singers, called lir-niki and banduristy, who from time immemorial had wandered along the roads of the Ukraine. In the mid-'30s, the singers were summoned to an official congress of folk music in the Ukraine. Several hundred in all assembled from all over the Ukraine, from tiny forgotten villages. Says Shostakovich: "It was a living museum, the country's living history. All its songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Music Was His Final Refuge | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Died. Marcel Gromaire, 78, French painter and tapestry designer; in Paris. Together with Jean Lirçat, Gromaire became widely known for reviving France's long-dormant tradition of tapestry making at Aubusson during the World War II German occupation; before that, he achieved international recognition with the showing of his striking expressionist painting, La Guerre. In 1951 he won critical acclaim for his series of New York "landscapes" depicting the city as "Dantesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 26, 1971 | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Probable Starting Lineup | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...gapers who knew nothing of dogs kept standing round their benches to ogle them and exclaim when they woke up to gobble huge chunks of red meat. This breed, because of its appetite, is one of the most expensive in the world to maintain. When they were judged, King Lir of Ambleside made Mrs. Northrup Bellinger proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Dogs | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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