Word: mermaids
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...football coaches. Indeed, Aileen seems to have led many lives. She became one of America's first female sportswriters. She danced for Busby Berkeley in Roman Scandals. She skated in a Sonja Henie movie and performed in the first Aquacade for Billy Rose, husband of her friend and fellow mermaid, Eleanor Holm...
...LITTLE MERMAID: Hans Christian Andersen gave his poignant tale of a mermaid who gives up her voice in order to walk on land a tragic denouement: unable to express her love to a handsome prince, she loses him and dies heartbroken. But Disney being Disney, the animated 1989 version of the tale ends with ... well, what do you think...
More than 1,200 local seniors who came by bus from rest homes across Cambridge were treated to more than just lunch yesterday in Harvard Yard. They also saw a dancing University president, their mayor in a sailor's cap and even a life-sized mermaid...
...from a gentler, more serious movie era; and so, to its credit, is this film. The picture has its light moments and patentedly adorable characters, notably Meeko the raccoon, a most fastidious glutton with a lot of personality. But Pocahontas lacks the menagerie of cuties that filled The Little Mermaid and The Lion King, and the absence must be intentional. For this is an animated film for adults who have a touch of the moony adolescent in them. The movie passionately argues that, of all causes, love is the one most worth fighting...
...singing about. Of all the fine scores Alan Menken has composed for Disney animated features (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin), this is the most complex and rhapsodic, full of swelling passages that are artfully complemented by the Disney artists' imagery of pristine streams and forests. Menken's lyricist, Stephen Schwartz of Broadway's Godspell and Pippin, has a poetic righteousness that deftly avoids propaganda. Colors of the Wind -- among the loveliest ballads composed for a Disney cartoon, and sung to fierce perfection by Judy Kuhn -- ends with the admonition, "You can own the earth, and still...