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Jeanine, 64, was one of the 350-member task force that saw to the creation of the memorial and one of the 11-member committee that selected the architects, the Butzer Design Partnership. She and her husband, both recently retired, worked at nearby Tinker Air Force Base. Karen was the youngest of their five daughters, all born within six years. Jeanine stops at Karen's chair. "Everybody loved her. She was a cheerleader in school, an honor student. She was an aerobics instructor during lunch breaks. Bubbly, full of energy, a real sweetheart...
...screen swirls with zippy images: a cocktail tumbler that mysteriously waddles on an airplane meal tray, a Tinker Bell electron that darts through our hero's thoughts, a vortex of digital effects that suck you into cyberworld, and a few Fellini moments, like the tunnel full of empty cars and the ghostly accordionist on a picturesquely creepy streetscape...
...haven't gone in and said, 'Is the money going where we want it to go?' No one has ever looked at it that way. We just tinker around the edges," says newly-elected committee member Nancy G. Walser...
Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Thornton Dial, a grade-school dropout, says he has been "making stuff" all his life. As a child, he assembled toys out of odds and ends, and as he grew older, he continued to tinker with scraps of this and that in his spare time when he wasn't working as a carpenter, house painter, cement mixer and ironworker. But it was only in 1980, when he found himself unemployed at age 52, that he began to pour all his time and accumulated skill and experience into his creations: powerful depictions of human relationships...
DIED. MARC DAVIS, 86, cartoonist who designed Tinker Bell and Bambi; in Los Angeles. An animator for Disney, he also helped dream up such theme-park rides as Pirates of the Caribbean...