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...gets in the way. Location shooting is at the whim of weather; special effects can look chintzy onscreen. And actors! They cost the moon, and their bodies aren't elastic enough to perform the comic contortions that Daffy Duck can give you with the wave of an animator's pen. So here's a tip for the '90s, Hollywood: junk the live-action movie. Just make cartoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festive Film Fare for Thanksgiving | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...recommendation distract Fogel from his own efforts, in this case his slow progress in finishing another novel: "Perfection comes hard to an imperfectionist. He had visions of himself dying before the book was completed. It was a terrible thought: Fogel seated at the table, staring at his manuscript, pen in hand, the page ending in a blot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Underdogs | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Scoring Player G Gl A Pts Pen P M Peter Ciavaglia 34 15 48 63 18 3 6 Lane MacDonald 32 21 29 60 21 4 2 C.J. Young 34 33 22 55 12 24 Allen Bourbeau 33 11 43 54 21 50 Ted Donato 34 14 37 51 11 30 John Weisbrod 31 22 13 35 25 61 Ed Krayer 34 12 14 26 2 4 John Murphy 33 9 13 22 6 12 Nick Carone 33 8 14 22 18 36 Tod Hartje 33 4 17 21 17 40 Mike Vukonich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1988-'89 Season | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

...instrument of this colossal output was drawing. Giulio was incontestably a great draftsman. Drawing was as natural to him as speech; Raphael, in fact, took him on as a studio assistant when Giulio was not much more than ten. The grace, the spontaneity of his pen line -- rushing over the paper as though impelled by the lightest inflection of thought, quick but always controlled, strengthened by brown washes that confirm its structure -- does not always translate to the paintings and frescoes, where it seems heavier and overdetermined. But with Giulio, design and invention were inseparable, and their combination is worn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Between The Sistine, And Disney | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...annotation to the text, Reagan repeatedly asserts that the speeches in the book flew forth from his own inspired pen. In some cases, this is evidently true. It is in these speeches that we find the unforgettable gaffes such as "We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night...They were all on a diet...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: What Liberals Could Learn from Reagan | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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