Word: upone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HUPD dispatched police to an altercation at Au Bon Pain. The individual causing the disturbance had left upon the officers' arrival...
...cornerstone of his campaign--galvanizing the campus by declaring World War Three--is not the typical student politician's promise. But Dreyfus insists upon the many benefits a Harvard-initiated war would bring, the least of which would be campus community...
...will call upon student group support and forcibly expel those who should not be there--who do not believe in what is right," he says unwaveringly...
...Once upon a time, around 1940, there was a popular commodity called middle-brow taste, a comfortable culture of refinement. It included Impressionist reproductions, Pearl Buck novels and light-classical music. Middle-brow provided a semblance of breeding and was pervasive enough that the manufacturers of mass entertainment wanted to tap it. So radio networks featured operas and symphonies. And Walt Disney produced Fantasia, a melange of pieces from the concert-hall repertoire set to swirling, splashing cartoon images...
Back in that once upon a time, Walt Disney made miracles. In 1928 he presented a primitive Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie. By 1940 he'd brought sophisticated color and sound to cartoons, extended them to feature length and, with Fantasia, boldly merged classical music and abstract images. Those were revolutionary days for animation; more was conceived in those 12 years than in the 60 that followed. Fantasia 2000 may look a bit timid by comparison, but it provides some fine artists the chance to stretch and frolic, even as it reminds today's audiences of animation's limitless borders...