Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these offerings impress the Abaloneans? Not on your tintype. Their expectations run more to trained-seal acts and Bobo the Dog-faced Boy, and their minds are thus unconditioned to accept such wonders. True members of the American booboisie, they heckle Dr. Lao and his magician during the performance and walk silently out into the hard Arizona sunlight when it is over. One suspects that Sinclair Lewis' Main Streeters might have done much the same thing...
...them-and for equally confused readers-Author Firmey, whose newsy style testifies to the years he spent as a reporter for the Tucson Star, offers an explanation of sorts. His shaggy-dog story is followed by a 20-page catalogue that lists all the male, female and child characters, animals, artifacts and edibles and even the contradictions that appear in the course of the story, an "explanation of the obvious" that as Finney himself insists, must be read to be appreciated...
...flavor of sour grapes there. Though most will admit the gentlemanly folly of cricket, the imputation of oafishness to football was, even in Kipling's own day, a bit anachronistic. Kipling seems to have had in mind the ancient bloody kickaround of the village green with a dead dog or severed head for ball, not the modern game that started to shape itself...
...halls of New York, Chicago and San Francisco. For a few years Bruce enjoyed something approaching a mass following among college students and "sophisticated" urban audiences and earned two and three grand a week. He became a liberal and cultural cause cetebre as city police and D.A.s began to dog him and his performances across the country with obscenity busts and costly trials. But Lenny bad-mouthed and alienated the heavies like Allen Ginsberg and Lionel Trilling who had enlisted in his defense. He got obsessed with the dream of self-vindication and as he struggled from court to court...
...some years she lived in East Hampton and loved it. She also spent time wandering around New Hampshire with a Labrador (the prototype of Bluebell) and all kinds of cats. "The dog got arthritis and died," she says sadly, "and the cats are all gone...