Meantime, Quixote's patented technology got better and better -- saving, by Rollhaus' estimates, maybe 30, 000 lives.
"You have to feel a little bit like Don Quixote fighting the windmills, " he says.
That's right, I found a hand-carved wooden statue of Don Quixote for Levin's office.
Don Quixote would have a fit if he could see what has become of his native Spain.
All but DMI resulted in substantial losses and writeoffs -- and took critical attention and resources from Quixote's highway-safety business.
Flamenco music and dance are widely admired around the world while Cervantes' novel Don Quixote is one of the most popular ever written.
But now that Japanese discounters such as Don Quixote, a general merchandiser, are playing the same game, the wholesale industry has begun to consolidate.
This is Don Quixote tilting at windmills--or maybe at satellite dishes.
He is founder and chief executive of Chicago-based Quixote Corp.
Finally Jean Rochefort, the French actor cast as Don Quixote, is crippled by a double herniated disk, and, given his poor prognosis, insurance adjustors pull the plug on the whole production.
This account of his tribulations drags toward the end, but you leave with not only an admiring grasp of his Quixote-like obsession but also an absolute determination never to work in pictures.
Numerous Spanish celebrities and well known public figures are taking part in a marathon 48-hour reading session of one of the Spanish-speaking world's most famous literary works, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.
Gilliam, who is still searching for funding for his abortive Don Quixote project which was called off in 2001 following a string of on-set catastrophes, has called The Brothers Grimm "his commercial film".
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But in his last decade he painted a magnificent series based on the adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza: Cervantes's archetypal visionary knight and his more practical sidekick, riding through barren landscapes on horse and mule.
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