Word: barking
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...human being into the body of an animal falls into the hands of a teen-age boy (Tommy Kirk), who thereupon starts sprouting long white hair, soon finds himself living a dog's life. His father (Fred MacMurray) is of course horrified to hear him bark like a dog. The young pups who make up most of Producer Disney's audience will snap happily at this scented rubber bone...
Eilshemius' muse was wayward, poetic, and in the end cruel. Critic Duncan Phillips notes that in one picture Eilshemius "symbolically depicted himself as adrift, all alone, in a fragile bark rushed along by the fierce currents of wild, rapid waters which swirl around an island under a witching moon. It is a symbol of all futility and frustration under the Tantalus of beauty and romance. It tells of his endless efforts to land on the island of desire...
...neighbors, of course, are horrified, but they console themselves that Horace Pennypacker's bark is worse than his family tree. In private life he is a devoted husband and father, an insufferable swaggerer about his "contribution to the growth of Harrisburg, Pa.": eight sturdy young Pennypackers...
...many bushbucks of many types crowded together on bald hilltops. During the day the equatorial sun beat down mercilessly, and birds of prey swooped in for unprecedented feasts. There are few baby monkeys or baboons-most have been eaten, some by their own species. The desperate monkeys gnaw the bark of their tree roosts and even attack the poisonous black mamba snake, from which they ordinarily flee in terror...
...stomach some doggedly doggy sex interest and the book's odd dog conversation (a kind of Madison Avenue jive), he may be able to grin, once or twice, wider than his own canines. But as he wags his little tale, Satirist Wallop seems to be unaware that his bark is a great deal worse than his bite...