Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepared to take on fresh water. When the crew glimpsed flashing lights on the supposedly uninhabited island, an armed small boat was sent in to investigate. Awaiting the sailors on the beach, waving his arms and dancing, was an extraordinary figure "cloth'd in Goat-Skins, who look'd wilder than the first Owners of them. He had been [cast away] on the Island Four Years and four Months . . His name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotch man ... He had so much forgotten his Language for want of Use, that we could scarce understand...
...long voyage home, Selkirk told the full story of his four solitary years-how he had built two log huts; how he had conquered a plague of rats by domesticating cats; how he had lived on goat flesh, fish, turtles and wild fruits. A century ago his countrymen placed a plaque on the site of Selkirk's lookout, reading simply: IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK, MARINER. But a far greater memorial has stood for more than 200 years-Daniel Defoe's The Life & Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. So lifelike has this novel seemed to generations that...
...hazards presented by a misty forest and a jealous witch (at one point she lays him low with an osteopath's neck-snap). The couple goes into some fairly passionate courting, including one handsome lift in which she climbs to his shoulders with the agility of a mountain goat...
...children worked feverishly to amass a sufficiently impressive array of gifts to "put down" a competitor at the next potlatch. Materials were close at hand: spruce and cedar for the elaborate carved totems and 60-man canoes, horn for spoons and charms, root fibers for baskets, and mountain-goat wool for blankets. Today the brightly colored wood carvings still bear rough adze marks, but they rank high as primitive art, ranging in style from naturalism to symbolic abstraction (see Color Pages). As demonstrated in the permanent collection of Oregon's Portland Art Museum, they are monuments to the highest...
...party, and the film winds up in fine farcical style with an ending that is obvious yet surprising, tickling credulity while taxing it. The film has been subtly directed by Henri Verneuil, handsomely produced by Raoul Ploquin, admirably helped with a good supporting cast. But Fernandel is a Judas goat who leads every minute of Sheep to its zany consummation. With the slightest nuances of his elastic face-a leer, a bucktoothed grin, a cocker-spaniel look of sadness-he proves that he is one of the most versatile comedians alive...