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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poked at a feeling until it sang a perky or rhapsodic Alan Menken tune. Nothing was lacking in these terrific movies, but something was missing: primal anguish, the kind that made children wet the seats of movie palaces more than a half- century ago as they watched Snow White succumb to the poison apple or Bambi's mother die from a hunter's shotgun blast. Disney cartoons were often the first films kids saw and the first that forced them to confront the loss of home, parent, life. These were horror movies with songs, Greek tragedies with a cute chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: The Mouse Roars | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

...international community can be successfully ignored as long as there's money to be made in the smuggling business, which there always is. Local pride, too, often works to support those who defy sanctions; misplaced nationalism sometimes causes oppressed people to rally round their leaders rather than succumb to pressure from outsiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: A Rung on the Ladder to War | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

What Lat seems to be arguing is that a conservative born into a family that is pro-life and pro-death penalty should not succumb to the idea that he or she can rationally attack the inherent contradiction, but rather should smile and adhere to the status...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat's Lack of Substance Typifies Conservatives More Than Liberals | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

...impervious to treatment. The ability of the cancer cell to outmaneuver its attackers has long been reflected in mortality statistics. Despite gains made against cancers such as childhood leukemia and Hodgkin's lymphoma, the overall death rate remains dismally high. This year more than half a million Americans will succumb to cancer, making it the nation's second leading killer after cardiovascular disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stopping Cancer in Its Tracks | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

Ionesco's conception of "rhinoceritis" remains suffused with moral and practical implications although it strives only to investigate the personal motivations and character failures that made Nazism possible. That a whole town of provincial but well-intentioned and essentially good people could succumb to propagandistic slogans and mental manipulation seized on Ionesco's imagination because of the unusual instances of people who resisted. What they had that saved them spiritually remains impossible to define, but through the hypothetical exercise of Rhinoceros, Ionesco explores some of the features of those who fell under the spell and those who did not. Berenger...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Rhino Stumbles Under Own Weight | 4/21/1994 | See Source »

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