For one thing, said Barbara Shine, manager of Double Play Toys in Borough Park, Brooklyn, the characters encourage interest in television, and the Orthodox Jewish families who make up her clientele do not watch television.
It's tempting to see McMurtry's novel as a carefully orchestrated morality play, setting supposedly civilized Europe against the supposedly brutal New World, and some of the characters encourage this assumption.
But even if Twitter didn't want to explicitly discuss the problem of trolls and bullies on its platform, it may be hoping the expansion to 280 characters encourages people to tweet less, well, "shouty crap".
The calm exterior of this playground, subtly decorated with fairy tale characters, encourages imaginative play and offsets the more 'active' features within.
Lolo, a French dancer, was a "sweet, beautiful" character, encouraged by her husband to have dramatic breast augmentation; she killed herself in 2000.
It was a bit of a shock to see the Puerto Rican guy whom Arquette's character encouraged to go to college turn up again as a slick and successful waiter.
Possibly to calm Mussolini as they await what they suspect will be their execution, Ms. Mirren's character encourages some bedroom action.
At certain moments, the Hawkins character encourages Douglas to dream big about her future; at others, she quashes the idea that she might move to Chow's gym, a move that would make an Olympic future more possible.
A new 60-second clip, which aired during Sunday night's Golden Globes ceremony, shows Kevin Spacey's ruthless lead character encouraging US citizens to re-elect him into The White House.
The Thought bubble challenge will help to develop text and dialogue in stories and what makes a good character encourages children to explore their visual literacy and really think about the characters in their stories.
