Word: alf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every audience loves the ridiculous comic figure who stomps wordlessly across the stage at discreet intervals. In just that role Bob Guaraldi, as Alf the Red Retriever (remember Alph the sacred river in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"?), could not be more ridiculous or more lovable. His costume alone is enough to do the trick: he sports long red underwear, a large fur coat, a bright red nose and great, comfortable-looking boots, the better to clomp with. Each character flirts with everyone else, but Alf manages to be the most open about it, sitting down beside May Wish and howling...
...billion-a-year fuel conglomerate, which is the world's largest coal company. The Tories want to strip off some of the Coal Board's many nonmining sidelines, like chemicals, brickmaking and North Sea gas ex ploration. Robens, a hearty Yorkshireman known among miners as "Alf," did not care to preside over the dismantling. "Taking profitable areas away from the National Coal Board," he warned, "would make it more difficult for the coal industry to be viable...
Dave Hynes put the Crimson on top, 1-0, in the first two minutes of action, and Clarkson didn't respond until Alf Machi tied the score late in the first period. But after that, a go-ahead tally by one team was followed quickly by a tying goal by the other...
...spot 2-6, 6-2, 6-4-the only individual contest to exceed straight sets. Curry is back again this spring, and although his progress has been interrupted by a pulled hamstring muscle, he could give Harvard's Bill Washauer the toughest battle the Crimson junior has had alf spring...