Word: miserably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world," he explains. "And did you discover it?" "No, no ... not really; you see, I couldn't find it!" In Eve's Dream, plants display a variety of personalities, as they do in the tales of Andersen and Grimm. The rose turns out to be a miser able beauty with a catty voice. The chest nut is strong but egotistical; "The trees and flowers know this. When they are in trouble they go to the sympathetic pine...
...Grinch Stole Christmas," Dec. 18. This is the 17th rebroadcast of the animated Dr. Seuss classic, which follows one miser's ill-fated attempt to erase Christmas from the village of Whoville. The late Boris Karloff provides the voice of Grinch, as well as all the other voices and narration...
...hidden behind the highest Himalayas. There Scrooge settles happily until a tin cap from a bottle of his nerve medicine is converted into a piece of coveted currency. Scrooge brings corruption to Utopia, just as, in another story, he almost brings industrial pollution to "the smokeless northern wilds." The miser skips out of Duckburg to escape the smog his own heavy industries have created, but the first glimpse of placid lakes and tall timber sets him to thinking about natural gas and paper mills...
...materialism, but Barks' stories always come up with someone even greedier, or some force of history that the duck cannot best. In the end, Scrooge's enjoyment of wealth remains essentially benign, childish in its selfishness, but childlike in its spirit. Whether the old miser would acquire this volume is a moot point. It is pricey; on the other wing, it is an investment. An entire genre of clothbound comic strips from Little Nemo to Doonesbury has flourished in the post-Pop era, but seldom has such loving care been lavished on a volume of bygone entertainment. Collectors...