Word: feather
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adventure at the start of the musical is now more than content to do the can-can with silverware. Could Disney be sending out subliminal messages to young girls about how a woman's place should be in the home, or is this critic simply paranoid? After witnessing the feather duster (Heather Lee) grab at her breasts while proclaiming how attractive she is, this reviewer leaves you to make the call...
However, two alterations to the additional cartoon's plot become evident at this point and add some interesting angles to the hackneyed production. Rather than starting out as full-fledged living clocks and feather-dusters, the castle characters reveal that they are slowly turning into houseware, which adds a nice touch of humanity to the painfully splashy musical. Also, through conversations and (ahem) read-aloud sessions, Belle's love for the Beast develops because they both feel isolated and rejected in their respective homes. This is a particularly refreshing change, since the "beauty" in the story is usually depicted...
...skit, in particular, recounted the persecution of a mentally-retarded, FAS-afflicted child by other youths. The performer, Eddie Red Feather, recalled that his peers once convinced the boy to place a fire-cracker in his mouth and smoke it as if it were a cigarette...
...Feather and his fellow performers later said that this and other pieces were drawn at least partially from life experience...
...room were suffering in silence,' Nelson said. "[Some students on the committee] tried to point out that a more accurate way to think about it was that one out of every four rooms was a drinking room. It's far more reasonable to expect that birds of a feather will land in the same room...