Word: breedings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once it seems Madison Avenue was right: hicks are a sturdy and noble breed, worthy of all the attention and glamorization and distortion we big city journalists can muster...
Gingerich is one of a rare breed of professors who take the time to sculpt their courses so that they entertain as well as instruct...
...comedy of mourning, an affirmation of attachments to the dead. Ethan visits his father in dreams; Leary's closest companion is Edward, his son's Welsh corgi. Unruly and nippy, the dog requires the services of Muriel, an obedience trainer at Meow-Bow kennel. She is an untypical breed in "truncated black suede boots with witchy toes and needle heels," a streetwise stray looking for a home. The Maryland working girl eventually gets a leash around Macon, who wants his wife back but breaks a leg and has to move in with his brothers and sister. The Learys...
Gingerich is one of a rare breed of professors who take the time to sculpt their courses so that they entertain as well as instruct...
...through the den. Like a book, it can be picked up and put down at will, the good parts repeated--or given up entirely if boredom sets in. George Baxt, a New York City mystery writer who rents up to five movies a day, is typical of the new breed of freewheeling video experimenters. "If it's lousy," he says, "I just do a fast forward and say goodbye...