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...never find a man strong enough to dominate her, Actress Anna Magnani finally asked, "Tell me, what do you really think of me?" Replied Oriana: "I think-I think you're a great man, Signora Magnani." When she caught Hugh Hefner in flagrant hypocrisy, Oriana remarked, "Here the donkey falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Goring the Egotists | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...Mexico firebrand Reyes Tijerina--have scored the farmworkers for sticking to peaceful, non-violent tactics. Chavez has insisted on non-violence, even calling off organization in areas where the threat of violence on the part of the growers seemed too high. But as Munoz puts it, "A donkey can only carry on so long before he starts kicking...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Clean Revolution | 10/22/1968 | See Source »

...decaying Southern-belle mama go off to wait at the family summer place in Corazón Sagrado, a tiny town in the mountains of New Mexico. Unfortunately, Mama can't adjust to Sagrado; the people are Mexicans, Indians and Anglos, the streets are full of donkey manure, and there's scarcely anyone to play bridge with. She begins to tap the stock of sherry in the cellar and becomes a befuddled wino. Along with looking after Mama and completing the process of growing up, Josh has some special problems of his own. Change Lopez, the meanest pachuquito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Through the Hedge | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...cultivation is intensive. At one village we stop to watch the many women who are weeding on the hill-slope. Down in the valley an Arab is ploughing with two oxen. A little further along the road we see a man ploughing with an ox and a donkey brought under one yoke...

Author: By Yehudy Lindeman, | Title: Bogeymen in the Mid-East | 4/9/1968 | See Source »

...about his son-in-law's elephant joke, Grandpa Johnson wired Luci: "I am happy for you and Patrick Sr., and Patrick Lyndon. Our best Hereford heifer is being curried for delivery, consigned to your 9-lb. son, who incidentally I know doesn't look like a donkey, and I hope that his father will quit publicizing him as an elephant. The time has come to get the Republicanism out of these Waukegan products. Love, Daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Patrick Lyndon | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

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