| In the way is one of his long series of dottily philosophical villains who controls a mine where the workers are badly exploited. |
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| She is the Mimi of the novel's title, a middle-aged, dottily feminist raconteur who seems not unlike Ellmann herself. |
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| Maud dottily buys many, many cans of peaches. |
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| In secondary roles, Jane Connell is Jane Connell, dottily imperious as the Grand Duchess Annina of wherever, and Eddie Bracken as an old wine steward has effectively tender moments, put to ruin by excess. |
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