Word: carli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute film Doggie Adventure has never appeared in theaters and has an unusual point of view. Filmed mostly from a camera height of about 2 ft., it features scenes ranging from a car ride to a duck chase in the park. Its climactic moment is a stroll past a fire hydrant. You guessed it. Doggie Adventure (price: $14.95) is a videocassette designed to relieve canine boredom when a dog is left home alone. Says Harley Toberman, the film's creator: "I always knew that dogs watched TV, but usually there's nothing worthwhile for them to watch." Sometimes...
TRUST by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; $18.95). Another installment of petty schemers and low-life banter for Higgins fans, but other readers will feel it takes far too long for the protagonist, a crooked used-car salesman, to get his comeuppance...
...they had toilets for colored. If they said yes, then he would say, 'Fill up the tank.' If they said no, he would say thank you and drive on. Once we were outside New Orleans, and this day they said yes, so I jumped out of the car and went around back, and I found nothing except a hole in the ground. I told my father, and he spoke sharply to the attendant. 'What else do you expect?' the attendant replied. 'Stop pumping the gas,' my father said...
Other students criticized CAR for being "out oftouch" with student opinions...
...Harmon said that if CAR had supported thecurrent housing system, Jewett and the housemasters would have eventually moved toward fullrandomization. He said that after Jewett releasedstatistics showing a lack of diversity in thehouses last month, it became clear that the housemasters would not support the current system...