Word: pinocchio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crimson review of pizza last year touched off a "debate," as the pizza gourmets came out of the woodwork to defend their favorites. Joe's Pizza at 1 Linden St., and its sister shop on Plympton St., feature a thin crust. Pinocchio's at 74 Winthrop St. sells subs and pizza; most people who like a thicker crust frequent Pinocchio...
They were dream works, not in the pressagent's sense of the word, but in Jung's. Snow White's flight through a forest that seemed to come alive and clutch at her; the vision of the creation of the world in Fantasia; Pinocchio's search for his father, taking him through the grotesque amusement park on the island of lost boys and into the belly of a whale-these sequences strummed psychic chords that live-action comedies like The Barefoot Executive (1971) do not aspire to touch...
...know when they are presented with inauthentic experiences, when the scary stuff is not really scary and the funny stuff is not really funny. One has only to compare reactions to recent Disney releases with the delicious shudders and joyful yelps with which another generation greeted Snow White or Pinocchio to see how the studio's work has declined-and how willingly parents settle for anything it cares to hand them...
...hardly surprising when Post Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman, an old adversary, last week compared Ziegler to a Pinocchio whose nose grows longer with every public prevarication. But James Kilpatrick, a conservative commentator who was generally friendly to the Administration before Watergate, recently said: "I don't believe the White House is best served by Ziegler. The word 'inoperative' is going to follow him the rest of his life...
...Pinocchio's Pizza and Subs, 74 Winthrop...