Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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With these four gargantuan volumes, the job of collecting the public documents of Franklin Roosevelt is completed. Totaling 13 volumes (8,625 pp., 35½ lbs.) in all, The Public Papers make a monumental record of a nation in crisis and an indispensable source for future historians, even if not the sort of thing an ordinary reader will care to pick up on a rainy Sunday afternoon...
...Disney; RKO Radio) is beguiling proof that Walt Disney still knows his way around fairyland. Harking back to the style of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), a small army of Disney craftsmen has given the centuries-old Cinderella story* a dewy radiance and comic verve that should make children feel like elves and adults feel like children...
...rich but delicately tinted Technicolor, Cinderella is unalloyed make-believe, without the disenchanting sight of a single photographed human face. It embellishes the outline of the classic tale with half a dozen simple, hummable tunes and the abounding whimsies of eight Disney writers. The fairy godmother becomes a dithery homebody who has some trouble remembering the magic words; the king is a wildly irascible sentimentalist, and a whole Disney menagerie cavorts on all sides...
...blonde heroine herself is properly all sweetness & light, the prince is just what romantic maidens pray for and the cruel stepmother is wicked enough to make Judith Anderson look like Pollyanna. These three characters are drawn in an attempt at literal likeness that the best technique of animation never brings off without a certain stiffness. Nonetheless, the spell is never broken. The rest of the human characters, including the sourpuss stepsisters, move flexibly in delightful caricature, and the animals are pure Disney...
...brought out his choicest delicacy, "a thoroughly chewed hodgepodge of caribou eyes, ptarmigan dung, auk slime and fermented bear brain," which the visitor rudely refused. Then wife Asiak had a happy idea: "Maybe he is not hungry. Maybe he just wants to laugh with a worthless woman." Beamed Ernenek: "Make yourself beautiful...