Word: pinocchio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LONG-DISTANCE relationship is like a receding hairline; no matter how hard you try, you can't get it off of your mind. You can't just go out alone to Pinocchio's and know that you'll see him or her soon enough at Justice or Ec 10. Nor can you just block your partner out of your mind when studying for a test or writing a paper, assured that you'll meet over baked fish pizzola in just a few hours...
Until recently, the same reaction would have greeted anybody with a notion of resurrecting the nearly moribund art of animation. Feature films as lavishly animated as Walt Disney classics like Fantasia and Pinocchio? That sort of craftsmanship seemed as antiquated as hand-stitched lace curtains. Cartoon shorts before the main feature in movie theaters? Too expensive -- and anyway, they would only slow down the parade of customers filing in and out of the multiplex. Animation in prime time? Went out with The Flintstones...
...Pinocchio's has long been considered a mecca for Harvard Square soccer fans, and support for the Italian national team runs high in the pizza parlor...
Soccer expert Rico DiCenso, of Pinocchio's pizza parlor, said the Germans had a distinct psychological advantage...
...REISSUE PINOCCHIO? The Walt Disney studio is developing a feature film to be called The Passion of Richard Nixon. John Malkovich has been approached about the title role, and production is scheduled for later this year. Producer David Permut (Dragnet) describes the project as a "story about a man desperately trying to overcompensate in everything...