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When you put the shotgun up against her left cheek and pulled the trigger, did you love your mother...
Twice in my life, in 1967 and again in 1973, I saw the face of war as a reservist soldier, first in Sinai and then in the Golan Heights. That experience turned me into a peace activist, but not into a pacifist ready to turn the other cheek to an enemy. If anyone tries to take my life or the life of my people, I will fight. I will fight if anyone tries to enslave us, but nothing short of the defense of life and freedom could make me take up arms. "National interest," "ancestral rights" and an extra bedroom...
...Fool in Love ("You can't understand/ Why he treats you like he do when he's such a good man"). So, as she stands mute and trembling on the stage of the Apollo Theatre in 1965, Ike walks up to her and kisses her on the cheek. Softly. It's very sweet and utterly false -- pure show biz. It is also a warning: a kiss that could be a kick. Tears rushing down her face, Tina wails the song's first word. It is "Woe," and it sounds , like a moan from beneath the earth, from any woman...
...trouble is that this nameless Everydog doesn't talk, or even have many discernible expressions. That puts most of the comic burden on the characters around him, who are a dull lot. Mom and Dad (voiced by Molly Cheek and Martin Mull) have plain-vanilla marital spats, and the two kids are boring Bart-and- Lisa wannabes. The plots are thin (Family Dog goes to the zoo or befriends a homeless woman), and the dialogue, by sitcom veteran Dennis Klein (Buffalo Bill), is more garrulous than witty: "That was stealing, and stealing is bad . . . Ipso facto, Fido...
Tongue planted firmly in cheek, Clark welcomed Reno back to the Law School with "some trepidation" since he said Reno had "stolen" Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann to be her solicitor general. And Clark said he had earlier seen Reno conferring in private with Ogletree...