Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costumes are most decorous, and the sound of a real orchestra, instead of those inevitable two pianos, is most welcome. Please (of course, I really needn't beg you) go see Iolanthe. It's obviously the most enjoyable show around...
Greyfriars Bobby. Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the little Skye terrier who, a century ago, won the freedom of the city of Edinburgh. Children will sit up and beg...
...Eleanor Atkinson made Bobby the dogtagonist of a novel, and now Walt Disney, who has released two other dog shows (101 Dalmatians and Nikki, Wild Dog of the North) so far in 1961, offers this glossy rebrush of the book. Children will do well to sit up and beg for the film, and even grown-up judges may affectionately award it a tear-soaked blue ribbon. Actor Mackenzie is wonderfully canty and touching as Auld Jock-and as a muttinee idol the Skye's the limit...
...beg you," Death (Enrique Lucero) groans in a voice like breaking bones, "give me a piece of your turkey. I have not eaten for a thousand years." Grimly the woodcutter chops the bird in half, grimly he sits down to sup with Death. "I knew," he murmurs sadly, "that I should never have a turkey all to myself." Death eyes him quizzically. "Why," he wonders, "did you share the bird with me?" Macario grins a sly peasant grin. "When you appear, there is no time left. I figured that while you ate your half I'd have time...
That night, getting desperate, Don Juan sneaks into his victim's bedroom. All at once, even before he makes a pass, she gives in. "You can do what you like with me." she says quietly. "I can't endure your suffering. I beg you to free me from your suffering." Victory on these terms is more humiliating than defeat. Doesn't she love him. even a little? "No." Suddenly he begins to understand that, on the contrary, it is he who loves her; that for the first time in life or death he is in love...