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- <text id=89TT0409>
- <title>
- Feb. 13, 1989: Pachyderms' Progress
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 13, 1989 James Baker:The Velvet Hammer
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 70
- Pachyderms' Progress
- </hdr><body>
- <p> That playful pachyderm Babar, who has delighted generations
- of children in books, is headed for the small screen. Babar, an
- animated series set to air on HBO in April, will bring the
- adventures of the royal elephant and his shy bride Celeste to
- life with voices and music. French painter Jean de Brunhoff
- wrote seven volumes of Babar's adventures in the jungle and in
- Paris before his death in 1937. Brunhoff's son Laurent, who did
- 25 more books, says that Babar's appeal lies in "a combination
- of total fantasy and the real world that kids can recognize."
- Sounds like a definite improvement over Teenage Mutant Ninja
- Turtles and its ilk.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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