Word: piglets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brave and bright, good-natured and ambitious, naive and vulnerable. All in all, he's probably the most winsome orphan to appear on the screen since Freddie Bartholomew impersonated David Copperfield 60 years ago. To be sure, Babe is a piglet, but hey, these days you take goodness where you can find it--and resolutely deny whatever snooty qualms anthropomorphism raises...
Brave and bright, good-natured and ambitious, naive and vulnerable -- all in all, saysTIME's Richard Schickel, Babe is "probably the most winsome orphan to appear on the screen since Freddie Bartholomew impersonated David Copperfield 60 years ago." Of course, he's a piglet, but still, he's a liberal humanist on trotters, capable of the occasional odd, soulful thoughts on mortality, and a welcome addition to a public life largely given over these days to swinishness of a less exemplary kind. Director Chris Noonan's fable shines with the classic virtue of the form--surface simplicity, seductive imagery...
Even though he made the Pro Bowl, Mark Schlereth, Washington's right guard, calls himself "a piglet...
...ever bored? Hmmm. He tells of staking out the main and only street of Cedar Point, a hamlet's least piglet of a town. The idea is to watch all visible action, dawn to dusk, from the back of his van. But nothing happens. He puts aside as too metaphysical the lame notion that he himself constitutes Cedar Point's action for the day. It rains. That...