Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normal animation, Bakshi first created a live-action film and then had the cartoon traced over it, virtually frame by frame. The technique allows for large-scale battles and much hacking and hewing, as well as some distracting side effects. When the crowds are especially dense or the action swift, the superimposed cartoon fades to a sketchy approximation. The live actor-models flicker like ghosts behind a thin wash of color, and the viewer feels an urge to apply a damp cloth and see what is really going...
Rockefeller's transformation from politician to art entrepreneur was swift. Only about a year ago, he decided that he might try marketing reproductions of some of the approximately 16,000 items in his collection, which in 1974, when he became Vice President, was valued at $33.5 million. Two months ago, the Nelson Rockefeller Collection, Inc., began with the mailing of its catalogue to 475,000 sales prospects, including 350,000 from the mailing list of the Dallas-based Neiman-Marcus department store. Rockefeller, who in 1974 was worth $218 million, will say only that the returns so far have...
Mose Allison. Jonathan Swift...
...cost you $8.50). From Nov. 9-12 you can catch Stormin' Norman and Suzy at Passim. For those of you who are into Balkan-American Folk Music (fees up, I know you're out there somewhere) Laduvane willbe coming to Passim on Nov. 1. And on Nov. 5, Jonathan Swift's will host the guy who did "Michael Row Your Boat Ashore," the "legendary" Bob Gibson. (I hear a disco version is in the making at this very moment...
VISITING DIRECTOR Ella Gerber has stayed Hellman's more searing moments with expert clarity, and has given the production a professional rhythm. The actors, however mechanically they drone their lines, pick up on cues and set the swift pace essential for building and maintaining tension. Gerber displays a deft hand for creating effective stage pictures. When Mary extorts the gossip from her schoolmates that she will use to tar Karen and Martha, Gerber places her high above them on a ladder, smiling evilly down on the hapless girls. Again, during the scene of Mary's accusation, Gerber stands the teachers...