Word: walts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Offensively, the main threat is halfback Walt Snickenberger. Snickenberger has averaged a little over 100 yards on the ground a game, and is a solid though unspectacular ground performer...
...Walt Snickenberger is a very good running back, averaging over five yards a carry. They proved they could move the ball in their 33-15 win over Colgate, which is a very good team," Restic added...
Like masters of more exalted arts, Cartoonist Walt Kelly succeeded in turning an imaginary landscape into a public preserve. With pen and wit he put together the world of Pogo, an inspired amalgam of bogs, hollow stumps, hog-jowl dialect and cheery absurdity. There, over 150 anthropomorphic critters gnawed away at the English language, baring kernels of political meaning, and carried on not-so-innocent satires of human pomposity. Phineas T. Bridgeport, the Barnum of bears, orated in billboard letters that burlesqued hucksterism everywhere. "Nuclear physics ain't so new and it ain't so clear," declared Rowland...
...grew up in Bridgeport, Conn., began learning his art from his father, a theatrical scene painter. He edited the high school paper and drew cartoons for it as well. After working as a reporter for the Bridgeport Post, he went to Hollywood in 1935 as an animator at Walt Disney Studios...
...describe the Disney collective's view of fine art? Its taste, ultimately, was Walt's and his was not markedly subtle; he had no pretensions to high culture and if he had been encumbered with such longings the barnyard vitality of early Disney would have been lost. When fine-art quotes appear in Disney's films, they are either apocalyptic and expressionist or else genteel: little in between. Their storehouse is, of course, Fantasia (1940). The cold crags and demon-infested clouds of the Night on Bald Mountain sequence refer straight back to the hellscapes of late...