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...Beatrix was phenomenally successful; Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and the Flopsy Bunnies are her most famous characters. And though popular success for a writer of Children's fantasies is not unusual, intelligent appreciation by adults...
...from England comes another interpretation of a work for children: the movie "Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter." Instead of dissecting the stories of Beatrix Potter with words, choreographer Frederick Ashton and the Royal Ballet delve into them using the more eloquent medium of the dance. Five of Beatrix Potter's better known tales are recreated through mime and ballet, with the spirit and watercolor beauty of her books intact...
...Rabbit in the Hat. The revolution's avowed purpose of creating no less than "a new Peruvian, one of dignity and responsibility" was a tall order. Peru was long overdue for a social overhaul. Only three years ago, giant foreign concerns and a few rich Peruvian families still had a hammer lock on the economy, controlling vast sugar estates that sometimes stretched for a quarter of a million acres, or running huge copper, zinc and silver mines where laborers worked for a little over...
...month the government signed a contract permitting the U.S.-owned Occidental Petroleum Corp. to explore for oil and split its finds fifty-fifty with Peru. The terms came as a surprise to oilmen, and may touch off a scramble among foreign companies. Says one economist: "Oil could be the rabbit in the hat for the Peruvian economy...
...interested in everything, from the nap of a rabbit's fur or the extra legs on a mutant pig to the theory of human proportion. His graphic work was a sustained paean to the diversity of the world. There was often an edge of apocalyptic menace in the way he perceived it. He wrote a treatise on proportion, but he was shaken by portents, frightened by monsters and preyed on by nightmares?all of which he described and to some degree exorcised by drawing them. But his curiosity remained insatiable, and it drove him to constant journeying...