Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your article concerning the deterioration of the St. Bernard [July 29] should have mentioned that inbreeding intensifies both good and bad qualities. It is clear that most of the offending animals are either products of backyard breeders without knowledge or regard for quality, or of puppy mills that breed indiscriminately to satisfy demand. Inbreeding is not in itself damaging. The critical factor is who practices...
...with Haig. Ford's staff members had been instructed to say nothing about the crisis, but some began to talk more openly about Nixon's resignation. "From any rational evaluation, it is bound to come," said a senior aide. Ford knew it too. That evening, he stood in his backyard looking at his swimming pool. "I really hate to leave this pool," he said wistfully...
...authored the script, throught up the film's most striking flourish. Its scene is not the expected lavish suite, but a steam-bath replete with floating tea-trays and chess-games. It's a crude American vulgarization, inspired no doubt by the array of gadgetry available to backyard swimming pool aficianados, but it works wonderfully to spark dialogue-dulled attentions back onto the screen. There are little self-parodies of the film's seriousness like this throughout, and while they work to keep your attention they only attest to a certain amount of disinterestedness in the real story...
...emotion, about long hair, pop-music Masses at church and the pubic hair that has sprouted in Playboy's gatefold since he left. He is tender and tentative as he tries to get to know his kids again, tries to fit himself back into the world of backyard barbecues and small talk about Little Leagues. His wife, meantime, has tried to explain to the boys "that I was his girl friend as well as their mother" so they would not "feel left out at times." Increasingly, blessedly, she finds it difficult to recall the emotional tone...
Martinez Jackson, whose mother was Spanish, had played two years of semipro baseball, and he encouraged his son to take up the game. Reggie began by hitting a softball in the backyard when he was seven. By the time he reached high school, he was a star, pitching three no-hitters and batting .550 his senior year. "I told Reggie," says the senior Jackson, who is still a tailor in Philadelphia, "that if he didn't make the team, he'd have to work in my shop...