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...dumb idea. He thinks all his problems derive from his inability to stay out of the beds of sexually desirable but otherwise destructive women. He decides instead to form a companionate liaison with a woman who is his mental equal, but is otherwise -- how to put this gently? -- a bowwow. Rose, we are to understand, is so desperate that she goes along with him, thinking that once they're married, his resistance to her will break down. "Richard LaGravenese is one of the few screenwriters left who can write smart dialogue for grownups to speak, but that skill only occasionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 11/15/1996 | See Source »

...readers with zonky yellow eyes. Did someone put hashish in her biscuits? No. As B.D. "explains," she is the cerulean ghost of the artist's departed four- legged companion Tiffany, now channeled back to inhabit her beloved master's work. Old timey with a New Age angle, this Bayou bowwow should get a good run for your money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Speaking Volumes | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...TIME guessing about the pronunciation of "Mau Mau," one of the secret societies in Kenya? TIME, Sept. 1, says, "rhymes with yoyo" and TIME, Oct. 27, says, "rhymes with bowwow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1952 | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...Actor Bramwell Fletcher, and Actress Allen, the brown-haired, vivacious mate of Actor Raymond Massey, have been given no easy task in making Pride and Prejudice march. An extravagant admirer of Jane Austen's quiet, domestic observations was Sir Walter Scott, who declared: "I can do the big bowwow myself: but the exquisite touch ... is denied to me." Most 20th Century playgoers lean toward the big bowwow. Accordingly, they might reasonably be expected to yawn at characters whose menfolk's tights and neckwear make them look like bullfrogs about to spring, whose every silly sentence twists toward rarefied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1935 | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

Mona Caird writes of the "Emancipation of Family" in a sort of big bowwow style, resulting in very little of worth to the question. "Criminal Politics," by the editor of the Evening Post, is daringly outspoken-a broom to raise much dust. The Tariff Discussion is continued by Major McKinley, and Felix L. Oswald is among the contributors to the "Notes and Comments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The North American Review. | 6/6/1890 | See Source »

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