Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...animation, this is a Golden Age. Not since the 1940s -- with Pinocchio and Dumbo from Walt Disney and the great cartoon shorts by Tex Avery at MGM and by Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones at Warner Bros. -- has the form been so commercially successful and artistically exhilarating. Moreover, at a time when mass art is fragmented, even divisive -- when virtually no species of entertainment has universal appeal -- the hip, comic ingenuity and emotional breadth of the best cartoons reunite the consumers of popular culture with Hollywood's surest instinct to please in a vast Saturday matinee of the spirit...
...gray and austere, a no-nonsense kind of place, populated mainly by adults. But pass through the gray door set off to one side, and suddenly, like Dorothy and Toto, a visitor feels the unexpected delight of stumbling upon a colorful world of spirited munchkins. Welcome to the Time Warner Children's Center, a month-old facility that provides emergency day-care services to company employees...
...youngsters between the ages of 6 months and 12 years. Why an emergency facility instead of a full-time day-care center? "We can serve thousands of our employees, instead of just a small number," explains Karol Rose, director of Work/Family Initiatives and Training for Time Warner. "The most difficult time for working parents is when everything falls apart...
Alicia Powell, 10, particularly enjoys the painting activities. Her mother Felicia, an assistant secretary in Time Warner's tax department, says the center "saved my life, really." Until now, Alicia had spent school holidays alone at home on Staten Island. "It had been a real big pressure on her and tremendous pressure on me," says Felicia, a divorced parent. "Now she's happy to know that when school is closed, she can go with Mommy...
...book (Sex, Warner Books, $35) was the final straw, of course. It's disgusting. No, not provocative or titillating. Disgusting. (Also very, very expensive, and I'm a little upset that I can't return it just because I opened the Mylar packaging,) What were you thinking? Oh, wait, I know--you explained it all to Newsweek: Sex is supposed to broaden our tolerance for alternative ways of life. By showing us a woman holding a knife to your throat (page 8), or two men raping you (Page 32)? Please, spare...