Word: owl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walking around in the shape of a man I don't know, I simply can't remember. What I am now is waves and particles, I don't need to walk around, I just go. When I want to appear I turn up as an owl...
Neither are the bone-weary hackers who trudge out of Wean Hall at dawn's first light. They repair to dorm rooms and Victorian houses in quiet neighborhoods to spend the day in owl-like slumber, skipping both meals and classes. As dusk descends, they will meander back to the computer rooms, returning to the fluorescent comfort of typed instruction and programmed response, ready to hack again...
...totalitarian front. In Watt's view, environmentalists only pretend to care about fish, fowl, and forests. Their more sinister real purpose is to bring "central planning" to the American economy and to "subordinate the dignity of man." It's night-malish vision to be sure--just imagine Woodsy the Owl in jackboots with a club--but a little improbable...
...magnificently magenta; it glowers over the forest with flashing threats of lightning. You could count the night stars, the fireflies, the dewdrops, the hairs on a lady mouse's arm. The wisest, oldest owl peers omnisciently from his sepulcher of cobwebs. A clumsy crow trips over his own feet and executes a dazzling arabesque. Genius-IQ rats, escapees from deadly experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), live in an underground palace as glimmering and precise as the Wizard's wonderful Oz. Our heroine, the lady mouse Mrs. Brisby, enlists the rats' aid to save...
...chorus of scene stealers on both sides of the camera. Sullivan, a feline too mean for the Official I Hate Cats Book, is given the voice of gravel-garbling Aldo Ray. Someone finally found an apt role for ancient John Carradine: the basso voice of the Great Owl, fierce solon of the forest. Jeremy the Crow is a splendidly funny creation, all good will and ill wind, and Dom DeLuise speaks the part so perfectly that he deserves to become the first cartoon "voice" to be nominated for an acting Oscar...