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He breaks bread and drinks grape juice with Russell (in a scene that's also reminiscent of a famous Goodfellas scene).
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On the fourth page of this 60-year-old novel — now available in English — Abe's teenage protagonist, an orphan named Kyuzo, breaks bread with four Russian soldiers in a Manchurian city not long after Japan's defeat in World War II. The fare is plain and the situation fraught as Kyuzo waits anxiously for his chance to flee the city of his birth and begin a journey toward a homeland he has never seen.
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Rothenberg was born to a Jewish family and received an undergraduate degree in classics from Princeton University in 1978, where he was a member of the Ivy Club.Randall Rothenberg, "An Old Club Breaks Bread, and a Tradition Crumbles", The New York Times, May 4, 1991.
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"Tour de France" simply refers to the fact that the Compagnons travel throughout France; every six months to a year they are required to change work locations. This is unrelated to the Tour de France cycling competition. The word compagnon (companion) is derived from the Old French compaignon, a person with whom one breaks bread.
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To add credibility to his daily conversations, he mimics the voices of his imagined guests with remarkable accuracy. Narasingha is a ventriloquist. When the relevance of his art started to fade away, so did his livelihood. Resigned to life under the shadow of his memories, he breaks bread with a junk-dealer, Keshto. Through the course of the film Narasingha ‘s loneliness becomes a painted picture, replete with images and voices borrowed from the past.
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Here a marriage bargain involving a lump-sum payment or the skin off Chicó's back is foiled by reference to the legal contrivance familiar from The Merchant of Venice of William Shakespeare—that is, the skin may be owing but not a drop of blood must be taken with it. João, Chicó and the bride now make their escape and enter gleefully into a life of penury on the dusty roads of the region, only to meet with a beggar of dark complexion whom we know to be Jesus. It is the bride—now reduced to penury for the first time in her existence—who breaks bread with him while the others philosophise about Jesus's propensity to test the faithful and just in such a way. At the same time they playfully doubt that Jesus could have been so brown—as João puts it while still in Heaven—reiterating the anti-racist message of the script and its original.
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