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Wonderland's Joan of Arc Screenwriter Linda Woolverton and Burton made two big changes to the text. One was to transform Carroll's episodic tale into an epic quest, based on the poem "Jabberwocky." Alice must seize the vorpal sword and slay the fearsome Jabberwock. In assuming this challenge, she becomes a female Frodo, Wonderland's Joan of Arc. This twist legitimizes the feature-length running time but also risks turning this jovially anarchic enterprise into your standard action-adventure. The film is better at reveling in eccentricity than at replaying Excalibur. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...begun to gather round him. Through many channels, from head-shop posters to science magazines, Escher had been insinuated into world currency. A lavish book, The Complete World of M.C. Escher, will shortly be published by Abrams. This week an almost complete exhibition of his graphics opens at the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco, where the prints Escher sold for $ 17 to $40 two decades ago are being offered...
RONALD SEARLE-Bianchini, 16 East 78th St. Searle has sharpened his pen for a vorpal bit of vivisection; the victims of his Anatomies and Decapitations in ink-and-wash-flatulent beldames with clinker eyes, lopsided popsies with liquid-cherry smiles-belong under glass in St. Trinian's biology lab. Through...
...vorpal blade went snicker-snack! The beast was dead, and with his head...
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