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Julia Ward Howe heard marching, singing soldiers beneath her Willard window and wrote the words for The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Walt Whitman aimed a sharp arrow at what he saw in the Willard...
...artistic favorites were rats (The Nutcracker Suite), mice (Walt Disney's Cinderella), whales (John Huston's Moby Dick) and the sexual cannibals of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer, which so seized her imagination that, she says, "my parents were afraid I'd try to eat someone on the beach." In fact, her mother had a deeper fear: "From the moment she was born I was scared stiff she'd turn to acting." Not at first. But there was an irrepressible flair for the dramatic. At 14, Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt...
...beginning was Walt. With Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Disney established the rules of the movie-fantasy universe and anchored it in the fears and wonders of childhood. But Disney's success turned the innovator into a caretaker at the mausoleum of his own style. After his death, the studio limped along on audio-animatronic pilot, while the true heirs of the true Walt--canny kids like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Jim Henson --updated the old master's tricks and made pots of dough. Now a new generation of Disney artists, some young enough to have made...
...perks of adult servitude ("Just let me rule you, and you can have everything you want"). With their technical astonishments, Director Henson and Executive Producer Lucas have been faithful to the pioneering Disney spirit. In suggesting the thrilling dilemmas that await a wise child, they have flown worlds beyond Walt...
...simplifies tax rates in return for wholesale elimination of exemptions and deductions. But fellow Senators, their tempers frayed by two late-night sessions, offered 62 amendments, mostly general but minor. A few, however, were phrased in the confusing Unocal style to offer favors to specific companies, industries or projects (Walt Disney Productions, the makers of cellular telephones and the Houston Astrodome, to cite three examples from the Finance Committee bill). Finally, with lawmakers lining up to introduce 60-odd additional amendments, the Senate put off a final vote on the whole bill until Tuesday...