Word: shtick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile-long spaceship in its search for life on other planets, is Disney's most elaborate sci-fi undertaking since 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Black Cauldron, still in the treatment-writing stages, is about a pig keeper's struggle with a villain whose shtick is regenerating an army of warriors from dead bodies-a long way from Poppins. Sex and excessive violence still are taboo on the Disney lot, but Walker foresees increased sophistication as younger animators reflect contemporary themes...
...your attention. As Brian Roberts, the Isherwood stand-in, a Cambridge graduate student who seems constantly in danger of prematurely becoming an English Don. York offers a soft-spoken, understated performance that appears deceptively serene in its controlled use of nuance and shading. In contrast, Joel Grey's shtick has picked up an added touch of the grotesque along the way. There are moments when it loses some of its original spontaneity--Grey now reads his punch lines as if he is a Cassandra who Knows, but isn't telling--but the overall effect remains seductive and riveting...