Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing reputation as a center of Communist influence. Guatemala this year decided to stage a lavish international fair. Jorge Toriello, a high-powered businessman who backs the regime, was put in charge with $1,080,000 to spend. Promising the republic a gambling casino, horse races, Miami-style dog racing, Ferris wheels, a roller-coaster and a brand-new bullring, Toriello pitched right...
...riotous bullring inaugural was not bad enough, Toriello's casino attracted little betting, his dog races were put off because of construction strikes, and his fellow businessmen showed no interest in the fair's industrial pavilions. A big hall labeled "International Exposition" held only four exhibits, one of them Toriello's steel office furniture. And to top it all, the hopefully awaited crowds of U.S. tourists failed to show...
...dog salesmen at today's Harvard-Davidson football game will attest, there is nothing worse than an empty seat. And the 30,000-odd empty seats which will line the inside of the Harvard Stadium today are testimonial not to Davidson's winless record or afternoon parietal rules, but instead to just poor scheduling. The seats will be vacant as they were against Ohio University because only 10,000 people are interested in watching such a football game. Undergraduates will attend primarily because of the free ticket plan; the absence of young ladies, however, may make the Saturday night dining...
...screenplay inherits some theatrical virtues. Its scenes are clearly built, its parts consistently written. The story itself moves at about the speed of Fate with a hotfoot. The speed, along with some lively shifts of camera angle, almost prevents a moviegoer from realizing that the camera, poor dog, is not really bounding free through the narrative growth, but poodling along on a choke leash of stagy words...
...taste in ties. Consequently, he left much of his poetry "unfinished . . . dissipated his talents . . . lived in a world of unrealized dreams . . . was always on the verge of doing something and . . . never did it." Oddly enough, it is the image of Coleridge -dissipated, useless and lovable as a Thurber dog-that lingers in the mind long after Dorothy has finished with her tips...