Word: steamboating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twitch of one of their little anthropomorph's bottoms, the stretch of his back or the lift of his ever-scampering feet they could, with fine comic efficiency, show the state of his emotions. The history of animation from the Mouse's introduction in 1928's Steamboat Willie to the apotheosis of the high Disney style in such features as Snow White and Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi, roughly a decade later, can be seen as a process in which movement became subtler and more complex, with a parallel growth in the expressive range of the studio...
...twice as many people as the county. Today the county has twice as many people as the city. Says George Wendel, director of St. Louis University's Center for Urban Programs: "St. Louis is, unfortunately, the city of yesterday. It was built for the factory system, the steamboat and the railroad-and made obsolete by the internal combustion engine...
...writer of the story was Jim Kelly, who spent a week driving around the Western states. A native New Yorker, Kelly dropped in on Steamboat Springs, Colo., where he had been a camp counselor ten years ago. "I found it nearly unrecognizable because of all the new housing developments," he says. "But elsewhere you can drive for hours and see hardly a soul." Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers, who will soon be leaving the U.S. to become senior correspondent in Europe, picked up a memento of the West's vast distances during his many long days reporting...