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...precisely drilled production-line kicks of the Rockettes. Its soaring shafts, tapering setbacks and elaborate stacking (for this was the age of Rockefeller Center, not of the banal glass box) hinted at vastly oversized Mayan temples; the contrast between glittering surface and deep wells and slots of shadow suggested exuberance and secrecy conjoined, the "metropolitan style" of Big Business. Instead of quoting Gothic or Renaissance detail as an indirect sign of quality, the whole tower changed into a business logo, architecture as advertisement -- the archexample being William Van Alen's Chrysler Building, 1928-31, with friezes of hubcaps and wheels...
...Every toy and tale throws a long shadow," says Film Animator Chuck Jones. "I could never have done some of the Bugs Bunny cartoons -- and kids couldn't have responded to them -- without a knowledge of knights and witches and giants. Every popular figure, from Daffy Duck to the Cabbage Patch Kids, has ancestors in the old country...
...CASTLE is the fairyland-like zenith of Disneyland. Since my Anaheim Hilton was in the Castle's shadow, I was using it as a cue to sanctuary...
Finally, I burst out of the hodge-podge of bricked up warehouses and auto-body shops onto a street that promised homes. Eager to escape death in the shadow of a "Lube Job $29.99" sign, I dived down the road. A quick left and I was deep in a sea of California ranch houses...
...Bill Bird: a junior butterflier who should come into his own this year, now that he is out of Egan's shadow...