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...coal. His leg was shot off in the Great War, and he is as bitter as we expect him to be: he clumps about the apartment in his double-breasted pinstripe suit and porkpie hat, spouting off a ridiculous agglomeration of cynical street idiom: "You ain't sunburned. You hoid...
GIANT (Orson Welles), the longish tale of the fading Texas aristocrat, played by the Rock Hudson (hoid o' him?), and the messed-up poor kid who slips on oil to become the messed-up rich kid. The one rising swiftly up, the second slipping pathetically down, the once and future giants both are desperately seeking the same Elizabeth Taylor. His last film, Giant whispers the tragedy of Dean's death more painfully than any possible obituary...
...when I ast him why he wept, dese woids I hoid...
Milt Gross of the American portrayed the imaginary effect on Brooklyn Jewish life of the hero's return: "Hm, you didn't hoid Meester Feitelbaum from Seedney Frenklin wot he fight witt bools. ... So it geeves chirrs de pipple wot it guzz in wodeweel de bool-fighter wot he bicomes yat from tsigarattes in de papers a in-duster. So Isidor (SMACK) ... you be batter a Seedney Frenklin und dunt gatting on de reputt codd a D yat in bool-fighting maybe...
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