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Prosecutors today cited the howls of Nicole Brown Simpson's dog to fix the time of the double murder. Neighbors testified that they heard the barking or saw the dog, an Akita named Kato, between 10:15 and 11 p.m. the night of the murders. Eva Stein, Nicole's next-door neighbor, said she was awakened at around 10:15 by the "very loud barking of dogs." Another neighbor, Steven Schwab, said that while walking his dog at about 10:55 pm, he came across the Akita, which had bloody paws. As Schwab headed home, the dog followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O.J. SIMPSON . . . IF ONLY THE DOG COULD TALK | 2/8/1995 | See Source »

Grown men bark, short and make like gators. The women at their sides grow hoarse outscreaming their husbands...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: Football Games and Grits: Two Things You Can't Beat | 1/25/1995 | See Source »

...important to distinguish Helms' ferocious bark from his bite. The Senator has said, for example, that he favors a "surgical" operation to decapitate Fidel Castro, but he doesn't have the power to make something like that happen. His rough agenda as chief of the foreign policy panel, while conservative, is not wholly outside the mainstream. His doubts about Clinton's controversial pact with North Korea to curb its nuclear program in exchange for new light-water reactors financed by Japan and South Korea are shared by other Republicans. He will look into drug trafficking and human-rights violations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's on Jesse's Mind? | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

Still, Sophie's World may not be for everyone. The characters are half- dimensional, the plot creaks, and Gaarder's prose (or the translation by Paulette Moller) has a distinct flavor of bark. As fiction, Sophie's World deserves no better than a D+. But as a precis of great thought, Gaarder's tour de force rates a solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Looking-Glass Philosophy | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

Matt is constantly surrounded by music. Heplayed the bagpipes for years, although now theymainly just sit in his closet. He is alwaysexperimenting. Music, playing and performingmusic, is his passion. "I like to drive a lot," hesays, as a man in the Perking Opera emits a seriesof short bark-like screeches. "But performing isreally what I love to do. A lot of time when youget caught up won't know what's going on you'rejust doing it. That's the best part aboutperforming--the more you can separate yourselffrom thinking about what you're doing and just becompletely doing...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Fat Day Singer `Moves Kind of Funky' | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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