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...that inevitable query, there are two plausible responses. One is "Of course, this is a Disney picture." The other is "Shut up." Shut up and marvel anew at the wonders of Disney animation. It used to be that serious people objected to the strange, destabilizing jumble of motives and styles that so rapidly alternate in the typical animated feature from the studio. Always trying to have it both ways, they said, blending the humorous and the horrific, the benign and the baleful. Scared the grown-ups and muddled the moppets. Or was it the other way around? Anyway...
...coda, it declines to spread its plumage on demand and the onlookers move on, disappointed. Its splendor, like the Gao children's dreams, remains unfledged and all-too-rarely glimpsed. Fortunately, this is not the case with Gu's talents. He unfolds them masterfully and his Peacock is a marvel that deserves to be admired...
...you’re in need of some mindless action-adventure fun, Sahara will do. So relax—buy yourself a big bucket of popcorn, sit back in your mohair-covered theater seat, marvel at all the shiny, expensive speedboats blowing up, and forget all about that six page response paper due Monday...
...months. He's not alone. An explosion is under way in the cell-phone business, as innovative new companies are popping up, feeding not just teen tastes but also, in the process, defining a new future for wireless communications. Kranzler inked a deal in December for Mforma with Marvel for exclusive access to its comic-book characters and is working on a next wave of cell-phone services. "My daughter lets me know what she thinks of the products--with a baseball bat," he says. "Her favorite...
...Visitors at the expo's Mitsui-Toshiba pavilion are taken on a multimedia journey through outer space that speculates on the feasibility of travel to distant reaches of the universe. At the Japan pavilion, saltwater red snapper and freshwater carp live side by side in the same pool-a marvel accomplished by infusing the tank with "oxygenated nanobubbles." Throughout the 173-hectare grounds, more than 25 robots are on patrol, sweeping the walkways and offering directions, while natural-gas-powered, driverless buses zip guests from one end of the campus to the other...