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...eyeball. And I ended up putting them in the movie. But that was what I was after-I wanted the entire film to feel like it was made from a child's perspective. I wanted it to be very imaginative and childlike-something similar to Toy Story or Willy Wonka or Labyrinth...
...able to slowdown or stop time. 2) The Production Problem: The availability of raw materials at the North Pole seemed fairly limited. Also, Santa Inc. did not seem like a viable business, what with all the pro bono work. Counter-argument: Santa could be the Rupert Murdoch cross Willie Wonka of toy sellers: a big-hearted tyrant tycoon with his own slave-race. 3) The Flying Reindeer Problem: Reindeer don't usually fly. Counter-Argument: The sleigh itself could run on some sort of solid fuel rocket that pushes the passive reindeer (rocket power being the only other possible means...
Tucked away in an unremarkable industrial building on the outskirts of town is a little machine about the size of a three-drawer filing cabinet. There's a curious Willy Wonka look to it. Feed a bit of metal powder into its maw, and after a moment of whirring and digesting, it spits out, say, a valve for a diesel engine or a gear for a car transmission or a pump component for a hot tub. It's an odd bit of industrial alchemy to watch--mere dust transforming itself into highly refined hardware...
DIED. ANTHONY NEWLEY, 67, showman; of cancer; in Jensen Beach, Fla. He co-wrote, directed and starred in the 1962 hit musical Stop the World--I Want to Get Off and helped write the Goldfinger theme and the score for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Newley was married three times, once to actress Joan Collins...
...contents of the $1.2 billion structure, revealed this week, include a 170-foot hollow sculpture of an androgynous human figure -- which visitors will enter at waist level and leave via the right leg -- and a ?dreamscape? across which visitors can travel on boats shaped like beds. Notwithstanding such Willy Wonka-esque attractions, many Brits remain skeptical. The rest of us will just have to live with our dome envy...