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...belittled him, caused critics to wonder about Bush's "corruption of ambition." Even George Will, one of the conservatives whose support Bush most coveted, was repelled. "The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another," wrote Will, "is a thin, tiny 'arf' -- the sound of a lapdog...
...cataclysmic game drew near, subjects of investigation ranged from the acupuncture marks in Quarterback Jim McMahon's bare backfield to the ghostly timbre of the Bears' Baskerville bark. Regarding that old rallying call, Otis Wilson was asked soberly, "Is it more like an arf or a woof?" The Chicago linebacker deliberated and replied, "More like a woof." On the Patriots' side, Runner Tony Collins was awash in sociological queries about his 15 siblings. Under pressure, he managed to name all eight brothers and six of seven sisters. Several of the Super Bowl's 2,500 journalists strayed off to plumb...
DADDY WARBUCKS KNEW how to play the game, Just let anybody mess around with his little orphan, Annie--Asian smuuglers, Russian spies out to topple the free world, mad opthamologists aiming to give her a pupil transplant--and the fun would start. Before Sandy could even "Arf," Daddy would be on the scene in his 200-foot yacht, puffing on a dark Havana as he watched Punjab and the Asp contrive a properly nasty comicstrip zoom for the malefactors. It was a fun little game, and Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion...
...valiant and convincing service on the acting front, Reid Shelton gives Warbucks an unparched humanity. Without Alpo to lure him on, Sandy proves an artful trouper even if he doesn't say "Arf." Since Annie is the sort of wholesome family fare audiences are always supposed to be arfing for, Broadway's latest tryst with nostalgia will doubtless turn the till at the Alvin Theater into a reasonable facsimile of the U.S. Mint. T.E.K...
Bottoms Pinched. Not 'arf bad for a series dreamed up over a casual Sunday lunch during which Marsh and Atkins discovered they both had parents who had been "in service." They were sick of seeing servants portrayed as scene transitions: "You know, 'here's your hat, sir,' or having their bottoms pinched." Neither woman did anything to rectify the situation until a year later, when an actress boasted to Jean that she had landed a plum part. "I was furiously jealous," says Jean, who immediately called a producer friend. "What do I do with an idea...