Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OLIVER & COMPANY. Dickens with a twist: the sprightly tale of an orphan cat named Oliver, a gang of raffish dogs and a pampered poodle with Bette Midler's voice. A jaunty love song to New York City, and the best Disney cartoon feature since Walt died...
THIS traditional genre in Japanese drama gets a modern twist from famed Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima...
...Dickens of his day, deviser of a comprehensive world in which humor taught homilies and fantasy purred up against sentimentality. But not until now has the studio based a cartoon musical feature on a Dickens tale. It was worth the wait. Oliver & Company is Dickens with a twist, and Disney with a treat. Turning Fagin's gang into canines, transporting them to modern Manhattan and embroidering the scene with street vendors and Tiffany dog tags, the picture makes for a luscious comic valentine to New York City...
What Calvino would have done with sight and touch the reader can only conjecture. That he or she will want to do so is just the sort of twist that Calvino, one of the century's greatest imaginers, would have loved...
...that the fans don't show any enthusiasm--it's just never directed at the game. A 20-yd. Flutie to Stanley Morgan completion isn't enough to prod the spectators to stand, but a time-out rendition of "Twist and Shout...