Word: breed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Upperclassmen can remember the winks of proctors as they read you the rules and handed you a cold one. Before this year, no one could remember getting carded at a campus-wide party. Harvard's tacit disapproval of the drinking age has shaped campus social life and spawned the breed of social animal that needs alcohol to party. If Harvard wanted to enforce the drinking age, they should have been doing so all along. If Harvard wants to enforce the drinking age now, they should ease the campus into...
Dale was a little more practical when he bought his two miniature quails. Shopping for food for his pet turtle, a Christmas present from his dad, Dale, describing himself as "entrepreneurial," spotted the pair and decided that he would buy them and breed them. Besides, he adds, "I'm a sucker for anything with a beak...
...stump in the woods, one realizes that this is one of those films out to defend that mythic territory of American folklore known as rugged individualism. Wildrose, like Country and Heartland, attempts to highlight Man vs. Nature as a dying theme in American culture. These films constitute a new breed of Back-To-America Realism that revives the creation myth of the endangered individual as the prototypical American...
...Sizemores, there was no question where Old Red's remains should rest: they put him in a sack and bore him to the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, where the rich totemic significance of the breed has been celebrated since Sept. 4, 1937, the day Troop, a coon dog of towering integrity, breathed his last. Key Underwood, who owned Troop and loved him like a son, put the dog in a 6-ft.-long cotton-picker's sack and brought him out here to the piney woods in the northwestern corner of Alabama and buried him in a hole...
Given Hollywood's current taste for Spielbergian light-and magic shows, an "actor's movie" is a dying breed. But in Kiss of the Spider Woman, a film mixing the dangerous ingredients of politics and movie glamour itself, the actors' contributions are paramount...