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Chain and Fable
There is also a Bibliography of sorts: the OED was, but the OED2e was not consulted; Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable was, perhaps somewhat uncritically; and, among works that either fail to reflect the latest scholarship, are not pertinent to the task set, or are just plain awful, the following are listed: Wilfred Funk's Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories , (a 1978 reprint of a 1950 work); Universal Dictionary of the English Language (1897); a modern selection from Johnson's Dictionary (1755); Partridge's Origins (1977), a work long criticized for its errors; and Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (1965), which is a $15 reprint, cursorily updated, of the 19th-century Ogilvie edition of Annandale's Dictionary .
Those in favor say the film is really a fable about parental love, since Benigni's character's antics are really an effort to shield his son from the horrors of World War II.
Tannen, like some grandmotherly creature from an Aesop fable, admonishes us to recognize what is good in the work of others, and it is only fair to extend her the same courtesy.
This "slight, amusing doodle" (Turan, the Los Angeles Times ) directed by Lawrence Kasdan is a "Frank Capra-style social fable for the '90s" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). The story follows a young psychologist of questionable credentials who moves into a small town and begins helping out the local residents.