Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...venture into adult territory," says John Canemaker, a leading historian of the form. "Why not do an animated Sweeney Todd? Or head in a totally different direction? Very few animated features have tried something original and unique, often with mixed results: the 1954 version of Animal Farm, the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, the X-rated Fritz the Cat. But most studios will probably try emulating Disney's success...
...documentary but soon realized that he was not fulfilling his aim of exposing Sharon's unsavory side. So the focus of the film shifts from Sharon to a fictional version of Mograbi himself. Between shots of Sharon on the campaign trail, the fictional Mograbi sits in his bland yellow den and describes the transformation he underwent in the course of filming...
...ironic titles in this series act out, and mock, the social structures she depicts in her more straight-forward anthropological work. Some deal with romance and male-female relationships, such as "Am I Pretty?" an arrangement of seven stag beetles on pebble-wall. One beetle holds a yellow star-shape bead meant to represent a crown. The human cult the beauty pageant is played out by Norfleet's arthropod actors...
...stores, toted by twentysomethings. Says the company's Maggipinto: "Now 26 is our emerging market, and as of this year we have begun seriously focusing on being on trend," she says. "On trend" has meant offering its best-selling stainless-steel toaster in Gen X-friendly pastels like green, yellow and orange, along with easy step-by-step products like gourmet cake mixes...
Barnum is one of the more honest characters in Jacobs' conflation of fact and fiction. In effect, the legendary showman leads a kind of geek chorus of real and imagined religious zealots, yellow journalists, gangsters and robber barons. The Wall Street rogue Jay Gould actually sells someone a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge. A Jewish peddler leaves the fold to become a dowser for parched anti-Semites. Hull changes the name of a new cigar from Pickaninny to Uncle Tom after hearing that black smokers might be offended...