Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bulldogs failed to advance the ball any further and a short punt gave Harvard the ball at the Yale 21 with 1:56 in the half. Wilford connected on a seven-yard pass to Jones to hand Harvard a 7-3 lead...
...over, all too soon. Lights went up. Blinking, the crowd members stared at each other. Encore? He'd played almost all the songs on the Darkdancer album. But the encore was not to come, nor would there be surprising covers or stuff from the first album (Liberation). It was short, sharp. For an hour and 15 minutes, LRD had avoided being faceless and anonymous. For an hour and 15 minutes, LRD had personality. For an hour and 15 minutes, Jacques lu Cont had achieved his goal. But the fact remained: an Axis that was only half-full meant LRD were...
...bosom-popping dresses--perhaps a nod to Irving's description of Katrina as "buxom." Ichabod's mother, played by Lisa Marie (Tim Burton's wife), breastily swirls in flowery dream sequences that contrast with the bleak scenes of reality. And then of course we have Christina Ricci as Katrina, short, blond and busty...
...animated film The Black Cauldron, though again, few, if any, of his ideas made it into the finished product. But it was while working on Cauldron that Burton established several friendships within the studio that eventually allowed him to make Vincent (1982), a five-minute stop-motion short about a boy obsessed with Vincent Price, one of Burton's own idols...
...action, all-Oriental cast version of Hansel and Gretel for Disney's new cable station in the same year as Vincent, Burton was then allowed to develop and direct "Frankenweenie", a 25-minute film that served as a precursor for all of Burton's work to come. In the short feature, ten-year-old suburbanite Victor Frankenstein (Barret Oliver of Neverending Story fame) reanimates his dead dog, Sparky. Filmed in black-and-white, with make-up on Sparky complete with little neck bolts and stitches, "Frankenweenie" was a modest success for the filmmaker that eventually opened the door...