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...simply Pixar-lite—part of the joy of viewing comes from seeing a computer-animated style that doe not look like Pixar or DreamWorks. Despite revamping towards computer animation, there is an undertone of the traditional style of which Walt would have approved. The setting of Oakey Oaks is particularly captivating in a Toontown-esque style—or maybe an homage, as producer Randy Fullmer also worked on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” Where Disney fails in “Little” seems to be where Disney always fails in recent...
Around Tweed in Tammany Hall revolved the infamous Tweed Ring. Among the other ringleaders: City Chamberlain Peter ("Brains") Sweeny, whose mistress was a masseuse in a Turkish bath; City Comptroller Richard ("Slippery Dick") Connolly, and Mayor Abraham Oakey ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, who wrote a play called Let Me Kiss Him For His Mother, and who, while District Attorney, gave a dramatic reading titled Dido versus Aeneas, an ancient breach of promise trial...
...Oakey L. Alexander, president of Virginia's Pocahontas Fuel Co., Inc., shocked his friends last week as much, he said, as if "Harry Truman had joined the Young Republican Club." The boss of one of the biggest U.S. soft-coal producers went into the oil business. With California Oil Co., a subsidiary of Standard of California, Pocahontas plans to spend about $1,500,000 building an oil terminal at Portland, Me. The 192,000-bbl. terminal will be supplied by Cal-Standard tankers...
Nast's battle with Tammany Hall and the Tweed Ring was his greatest campaign. In 1870 the Ring, consisting of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, Peter Barr ("Brains") Sweeney, Richard B. ("Slippery Dick"') Connolly, Mayor A. ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, ruled New York without question. Bearded, bleary-eyed Boss Tweed, who began his career as nose-punching foreman of the Americus or Big Six Fire Co., was Commissioner of Public Works; Brains Sweeney was the lawyer; Slippery Dick was Comptroller of Public Expenditures; Elegant Oakey was the Ring's social front. Their methods were childishly simple. New York's books were never...
...increased from about 300 to 535. About 300 men were present at the meeting. The Yale eleven was there in full force including the second eleven and all the substitutes. Chauncey Depew, the president, made the speech of the evening. Other speeches were made by Judge Howland, John Oakey, and J. H. Bromley...