Word: vocalisms
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Somewhere director Mark Prascak was hit with the stroke of genius of giving each of the two-dimensional characters a different color, shape, physical tic, and annoying vocal mannerism. Best of all, these accoutrements match their role in the play. It's not really cubist, but it is very funny...
...fully consonant with what we have been taught to believe are the experiences of our immigrant ancestors, and they are imaginatively enlivened by being rendered from a mouse's-eye view. The animation and the backgrounds occasionally fall below classic Disney standards, but the characterizations, both visual and vocal, are entirely endearing. Since Director Bluth (The Secret of NIMH) is a Disney graduate who has been bluntly critical of his former studio's current standards and practices in this field, his mouse may have a subtext to match its soul...
While most of the President's men are hopeful of molding new congressional coalitions, a vocal minority in the White House will probably urge the President not to give ground to the Democrats. Observes one hard-liner: "Congress, institutionally, is a very timid and frightened place if you force the issue...
Simpson, the lead character, sometimes becomes overshadowed by the strong personalities of the couples, but he has got some great vocal cords to compensate for his dull Average-man character. And his steamy scene with April (Lesley Blumenthal), one of his girlfriends, provides some apprehensive and funny moments...
...injection of Oculinum in May. "It was a miracle," she exclaims, "the thrill of being able to open my eyes. Now I see through slits, when I can see." Other patients who used Oculinum, including some suffering from crossed eyes (strabismus) or muscle spasms of the face, neck and vocal cords, are clamoring for the drug. Says Neurologist Joseph Jankovic of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston: "All of our patients have reversed to their original condition...