Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown, the protagonist of Mark Harris' new novel, is a man who cannot even bring himself to exterminate a neighbor's annoying dog. Yet his mind is a charnel house of potential victims, executed because he thinks nearly everyone around him helped send his mistress's son to death in Viet Nam. Incurably infected by the anger and violence of the past decade, Brown fires off anonymous and threatening letters to presidents, neighbors, even chance acquaintances who displease...
Harry Theodore, Doctor of Delectables, campus hot-dog vendor for 25 years...
...Dog. Two minority families have made some sacrifices to live in the suburbs. A black mother misses "black cultural identity" for her family. "Here," she says, "the biggest cultural happening has been the opening of two department stores." Chinese restaurants have not yet reached the valley. A Chinese family of six is shown on a Saturday night making do with hot dogs...
...neon tube, etching its innumerable messages across the skyline, is at least as familiar a sight to urban Americans as a tree or a dog. But not to a woman named Chryssa Mavromichaeli, when she arrived in the U.S. from Athens, age 21, in 1954. "I saw Times Square with its lights and letters, and it made me realize that they were as beautiful and as difficult to make as any Japanese calligraphy," she later recalled...
...next act in the show was a dance troupe, with a polished Brechtian little mime about the dog-eat-dog world. In the background a slide projector flashed pictures of atrocities in Indochina. Again a question--What is the way out of all this? Blackout. And on stage appears Davis to give The Answer...