Word: watership
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...around him (it's the year of the Falklands War and Maggie Thatcher's unexpected revolution). One part of him leans toward knowingness, but the rest is mired in a child's supercharged universe of witches and spirits and "Ghosts of Might Be" in the woods. He is reading Watership Down while dreaming of Debbie Harry's "full-cream lips...
...England, he and Sarah spend as much time as possible at Sydmonton, near the Watership Down country of Novelist Richard Adams, where his extensive holdings have made him the squire of two villages. The oldest part of his brick manor house dates back to the 16th century. Each July the estate serves as the site of Lloyd Webber's private Sydmonton Festival, where the composer tries out his works in progress before a specially invited audience. A connoisseur of old English religious architecture, Lloyd Webber often spends Sundays driving around with Sarah to visit churches...
That long-famous but never-released photograph of Jimmy Carter and his "killer rabbit" finally surfaced last week. It should lay to rest any doubts as to the former President's bunny tale. Fishing alone in 1979 in a small watership down in Plains, Ga., Jimmy was alarmed to see "a fairly robust-looking rabbit" hissing menacingly, with teeth flashing and nostrils flared, paddling furiously toward his skiff. When the furry creature got to within a hare's breadth of the craft, Carter took oar in hand and began flailing frantically to chase it away-or maybe even...
This sudden popularity is partly due to the Britons' traditional interest in Lagomorpha, from the March Hare in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to the whole cast of Watership Down. It may also be attributed to the book's Botti-celliesque illustrations in which natural laws are suspended and the floating vistas of childhood are suffused with magic realism. But in the main, Masquerade's phenomenal rise can be credited to that basic human characteristic: greed...
...Watership Down. A return to the classic visual values in animated moviemaking produces the year's best family film, always compelling and often funny...