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...masterpiece Pinocchio, Disney repeatedly pulled sequences and single images that seem destined to survive as long as the history of cinema itself: the hilarious ballet of hippos, crocodiles and bemused ostrich in Fantasia, the terrifying image of little Jiminy Cricket perched on the eyeball of Monstro the Whale in Pinocchio, the sight of Dopey with diamonds screwed into his face like monocles, whirling his multiplied eyes within their facets. Such things are the real stuff, and any smart five-year-old can distinguish them from the cyclamate guck of late Disney...
...vast, despised leviathan−the middle class−has entirely swallowed the artist and his followers. Yet this too is an irony that Duchamp might have enjoyed. As the Philadelphia Museum visitor walks through Duchamp's striking prefigurations, it is possible to imagine, from deep inside the whale, the dry, ironic sound of the last laugh...
...flight through a forest that seemed to come alive and clutch at her; the vision of the creation of the world in Fantasia; Pinocchio's search for his father, taking him through the grotesque amusement park on the island of lost boys and into the belly of a whale-these sequences strummed psychic chords that live-action comedies like The Barefoot Executive (1971) do not aspire to touch...
...Whale Hunting. PIC's most successful campaign was done in conjunction with Maxwell Arnold, chief of a San Francisco agency. For $500 Arnold produced a newspaper ad to raise funds for a North Vietnamese hospital that was hit by U.S. bombers just before Christmas. The ad, headlined OUR PRESIDENT WAS ANGRY, SO BACH MAI HOSPITAL IN HANOI WAS DESTROYED, drew
...group seeking better job training for inmates, shows a convict at work under the headline: I MAKE AMERICAN FLAGS FOR 350 A DAY. PIC has also created promotions for the Lawyers Guild, which wants to reform grand juries, and Project Jonah, an organization that is trying to stop whale hunting...