Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question marks. Are there ways to make popular animated films that don't slavishly follow the rules Walt and the boys made up in the 1930s? Are studios jumping on the toon trolley just as the form has shown signs of losing its commercial luster? "I'm a little uncertain," says Chuck Jones, who joined Warner's in 1935 and today, at 85, is the greatest living animation director. "There are so many films in the works now that the market may soon be oversaturated...
...cookbookery's commercial champion; that title belongs to the Betty Crocker basic cookbook, which has moved roughly 60 million copies. But Joy earned pride of place as the one indispensable kitchen reference source, and a fail-safe graduation or wedding present besides. It told beginning or uncertain cooks how to, among everything else, set a table, fillet a fish and turn a squirrel carcass into something edible. The 1975 Joy, the edition that the new book will supplant, has still been selling about 100,00 copies a year...
Thabani Patrick Tshanini's Mabatha is perhaps a less sympathetic character than the one we're familiar with-- ambitious but uncertain about his own ability to control his destiny, he nonetheless remains a strong man to the end, oppressed by outside forces, not by internal demons. His wife, Ka Madonsela, is played by the extraordinary Dieketseng Mnisi, an actress of considerable presence who comes closest to conveying her meaning and emotions successfully through facial expression and hand gestures...
...feet away, first-year parent S. Kuo said that this kind of independence would probably lead to war, in which U.S. backing for Taiwan was uncertain--"that's the $64,000 question," he said...
...Safety school," sounded several uncertain voices...