Word: roosters
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...farm boy, drifts to sleep as his mother reads to him from an abridged version of the 13th century classic--undoubtedly a staple in barnyards across the nation. Understandably disoriented, the boy imagines himself into the body of a whiny kitten on the trail of modernized Chanticleer, Chaucer's rooster who makes the morning...
...enough that the Rock-a-Doodle shames Chaucer with its unnecessary modern twists and stupid screenplay. Chaucer's rooster would never cluck some of Bluth's bird's lines. "I've got a hole in my heart so big,:" the modern day Chanticleer drawls, "you could drive a John Deere tractor through it." Not the stuff of poets...
Jean Richard, 79, a retired watchmaker from nearby Rayne ("Frog Capital of the World"), recalls an earlier time, when almost everybody in southwest Louisiana played an instrument. "My daddy could play harmonica, crow like a rooster and bark like a dog all at the same time." He shakes his head sadly. "That trait is gone today -- nobody practices that anymore...
...French character, at least as outsiders exaggerate it: the boastful, cocksure Gascon whose fellow provincials are defined in Rostand's play as "free fighters, free lovers, free spenders, defenders of old homes, old names and old splendors . . . bragging of crests , and pedigrees." Yet now it seems that the rooster, the national symbol, is crestfallen...
That was the Stalin I remember during the war. Yet after the victory, there he was, strutting around like a rooster, his chest puffed out and his nose sticking...