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Poor Gigot. He is not very bright, and he is literally dumb. He seldom has a soul, but he has a heart of gold. People hoot and holler at him when he walks into a bistro-he smiles at them shyly. Children pin tails on the poor donkey-he never gets mad. But he longs to be a member of humanity, and one day he discovers the only place where he is accepted by other people: in a cemetery. After that, Gigot never misses a funeral. He stands at the graveside, shoulder to shoulder with the mourners, and weeps...
...wind up the elephant doll and it pins everything on the donkey...
...that English will break down into Oxford English, New York English, Australian. Russian, Chinese English and so forth." Exploring examples of conflicting usages, Eccles pointed out that "flat" means "puncture" in New York and "apartment" in London, wondered "what to do about the young English gentlemen who call a donkey an arse...
...reputation for unorthodoxy. Although fundamentalist in his theology, he was a political liberal who spoke out in the pulpit against Virginia's racial segregation. His orations were notable for their scholarship-and for their shock value. Once he was photographed at a church bazaar sitting backwards on a donkey and wearing a Japanese lantern...
Against all this powerful opposition, Actress Tushingham, 19 when the film was made, holds her own with an ease that seems incredible, considering her principal previous experience: as the rear end of a donkey in a provincial production. She has a kind of elementary female beauty-big hips, small breasts, long, delicate face-that is seldom seen on the modern screen, and she plays with delicious naturalness and a wonderful wild freedom of feeling. She understands that the daughter is no ordinary heroine. Author Delaney has created a wise child who knows its own mother and is fearlessly determined...