Word: walts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that has since been translated into 16 languages and sold 2.5 million copies; of cancer; in Garrett Park, Md. Leaf taught high school before writing and illustrating dozens of children's books. Ferdinand, the peace-loving bull who would rather sniff flowers than fight, later starred in a Walt Disney movie, and was used to sell merchandise from cereal to diamond pins...
...Dayton, at 35, heads Doty-Dayton Productions, a Hollywood company that in four years has turned out five movies, and all profitable-a phenomenal performance by the standards of cinema finance. The company now is releasing as many films, counting its own flicks and pickups from other producers, as Walt Disney Productions. Though there is a belief in Hollywood that people who clamor for cleaner movies do not go to them, Dayton says: "There is an audience out there that is getting tired of sex scenes and gutter language. There is a need for more family films. Disney makes them...
...like beautiful flowers: they don't tell you anything, but they make you feel good." Balanchine is talking about the ballet known in Germany as Der Nussknacker, in France as Casse-Noĩsette and throughout the English-speaking world as The Nutcracker. Not even Walt Disney could top it. Right on stage a Christmas tree grows magically to an enormous height. A nutcracker doll springs to life, defends its young mistress, Marie, against an army of huge mice, then turns into a young prince. A white bed, moving under its own power, transports Marie through a wintry forest...
...Walt Kelly in Short Pants...
...pulse on the thumb of the nation when he ratified and amplified the '60s counterculture in The Greening of America, the most profoundly naive bestseller of the period. The Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef introduces the third Reich, a San Francisco homosexual who now quotes Joni Mitchell and Walt Whitman and preaches an herbal-essence philosophy called "evolutionary rebellion...