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...even cleaner and more utopian. Yet even as the Japanese version reproduces virtually every feature of its American models, it turns them into something entirely Japanese. Melvin, Buff and Max, the antlered commentators at the Country Bear Jamboree, speak in the grave basso profundos of Kurosawa samurai. Alice in Wonderland has Oriental features. Frontierland has been turned into Westernland ("The Japanese don't like frontiers," explains a park official), and Main Street has become the World Bazaar...
...choice of Christmas songs to record. The songs mostly have more to do with American holiday folklore than with religion. Instead of "Ave Maria" or "O Come All Ye Faithful," the album gives us "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," and "Winter Wonderland". The result is that this very good record is satisfied with being fun rather than beautiful, commercial instead of spiritual...
Gelber has appeared in 21 shows at Harvard. Before college, he was perennially cast as the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. At five foot two inches, Gelber jokes "I'm under contract; whenever there is a production of Alice in Wonderland I play the white rabbit." Ironically, he discovered theater as a calling by being cast in a play where he was killed by a white bunny from outer space. That was sophomore year in The Paranormal Review...
...legitimized what had until then been an unacknowledged purpose of many bail procedures. "This sends a dangerous message that the trial is an afterthought," said Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz last week. New York Defense Lawyer Alan Silber was reminded of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "To paraphrase the Queen of Hearts, 'First the sentence, then the trial...
...five years in the U.S. Working for cash, living under assumed names, moving frequently, these shadow citizens are now told to furnish the incriminating documents they once tried to avoid: rent and telephone receipts, pay slips, tax forms. "The documentation requirements for applicants are written in an Alice-in-Wonderland world," says Peter Schey, a Los Angeles immigrant advocate. "Illegal aliens don't leave a paper trail. INS is treating these people as if they were IBM executives with resumes in their back pockets...