Word: tins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production is billed as "The Best of the Fest," a sort of "greatest hits" production highlighting some of the best animated shorts from Festivals of years past. Only two of the 17 animations contained in this year's Festival are new to Boston screens--the 1989 Academy Award winning Tin Toy and John (Charade) Minnis' new short Just a Cartoon...
...that has had its claws removed, or the significance of Wheelwright's carrying his small friend on his shoulders to slam-dunk a basketball. For graduate students there is the fact that Meany shares more than initials with Oskar Matzerath, the runt hero of Gunter Grass's masterpiece, The Tin Drum...
...loaning money to Third World nations, the countries using the money for unneeded and bloated projects--usually called "white elephants"--the quick reduction of capital flowing to these nations, and most of all a crash in the prices of products the countries export. For example, the 1985 crash in tin prices helped crush Bolivia's economy, and the fall in petroleum prices restricted the flow of money into Mexico and Venezuela...
...pros. Not like Horowitz, exactly; more like Flash Gordon auditioning for a garage combo, or one of those zoological enigmas who made spacey sounds in the Star Wars saloon. Keyboards can reproduce instrument sounds, even sample sound effects (from a rain forest to a barking dog), and turn any tin ear into a one-man band...
...theatrical source material. To make them even more attractive to movie buffs and general viewers, disc producers are offering extras unavailable on tape and often even in theaters, such as Bolger's full dance number, which never made it into the Wizard, and Ebsen's brief appearance as the Tin...