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...filmmakers whose works make up this program of cartoon shorts combine imagination and technology with a wicked sense of visual wit to come up with this series of fantasies that should beguile even those who hated Fantasia. Like the best of Disney's minions, these animators take the laws governing commonplace existence, turn them inside out and render the impossible persuasive...
...program proves that the animation technique need not impose any stylistic formula on the animator. The mood and subject of these short essays range from the melancholy romanticism of Raoul Servais's Sirene, a tale of love between a mermaid and a flutist after a holocaust, to the wry wit of Kick Me by Robert Swarthe in which the protagonist is a pair of headless legs...
...writes his memoirs, Kissinger undoubtedly will tell his story with vision and wit, although the Viet Nam and Cambodia chapters may be difficult to compose. Interviewing Kissinger was always a jousting match in which he often spoke for history. Indeed, with his vitality and drive, he sought as Secretary of State to overpower the forces of history. The challenge fascinated him and gave diplomacy a new allure for millions. He is only half joking when he says he will be back in 1981, the year another presidential term will begin. Henry Kissinger had his failures, but his imagination-and often...
...criminals are painted not as dedicated ideological revolutionaries but as the debris of society, turning to terrorism as a last resort. All the people they kill are the good guys, while Harry & Co.'s victims are the bad guys. And Harry still retains that smug irritating demeanor and quick wit that has endeared him to millions...
...yules New Yorker Writer Frank Sullivan saluted friends and celebrities in a full-page poem, nutmegged with his gentle wit and redolent rhymes. The poem failed to appear last year; the sage of Saratoga Springs was too ill to write it. Then, last winter, Sullivan died at the age of 83. But this week's New Yorker does not leave the "season all unbarded and countless friends un-Christmas-carded." The humorist's former editor, noted Parodist Roger Angell, 56, has raised a toast in the master's distinctive style...