Word: moles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production has many merits: Rouben Mamoulian's swift, pictorial staging, some of Kurt Weill's music, Todd Duncan as the father, Julian Mayfield as the son, ten-year-old Herbert Coleman bringing down the house with Big Mole. But with half as much, Lost in the Stars might have been twice as good...
...dark blue night stitched red with running gunfire; the defeat of the thieving weasels in the epochal battle of Toad Hall. This lighthearted, fast-moving romp has inspired some of Disney's most inventive draftsmanship and satire-in the crotchets of Toad and his loyal friends, Rat, Mole, MacBadger and Cyril the horse...
There the repentant Toad determines to lead a new life, exemplified by his loyal but stuffy middle class friends, Badger, Mole, and Rat. When he escapes from the Tower, however, he reverts to his behavior as headstrong scion of the aristocracy...
...What a spectacle, in the spring, beneath a dead mole!" wrote Jean Henri Fabre. "The horror of this laboratory is a beautiful sight for one who is able to observe and meditate. Let us overcome our disgust; let us turn over the unclean refuse with our foot. What a swarming there is beneath it, what a tumult of busy workers! The Silphae,* with wing cases wide and dark, as though in mourning, flee distraught, hiding in the cracks in the soil; the Saprini,* of polished ebony which mirrors the sunlight, jog hastily off, deserting their workshop; the Dermestes,* of whom...
...between the canals' eucalyptus-lined banks. Other canoes with gardenias, carnations and violets draw alongside; or gondolalike chalupas glide up while their mariachis play and sing La Paloma or Cielito Lindo. Some of the big canoas have luncheon tables in their centers at which the tourists can eat mole and tortillas and drink the famed Mexican beer...