Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scientists reckon that there is a pet population explosion in the U.S. There already are as many as 110 million cats and dogs in America, which equals more than one dog or cat for every two humans. Every hour, between 2,000 and 3,500 puppies and kittens are born (v. 415 human babies). The authors make no Malthusian projections of a continent overrun with strays. They do, however, have a finely honed sense of the economics of pets...
CENTRAL CINEMA II Uncle Vanya, 6, 9:30. Lady With The Dog, 8, Wknd...
...theme of white exploitation of blacks in a series of interrelated vignettes, starting from the opening scene in which the father. Nathan Lee (Paul Winfield) and David Lee are involved in one of the basic struggles in life--the search for food. Despite the aid of their hunting dog. Sounder, the two are unsuccessful in their search for a coon. The family goes to bed hungry. Alone with Rebecca, Nathan Lee curses his existence, but she says "We've been through these hard times before, Nathan Lee and we've made it." "But made it to what," he asks...
...brief, a character in a Neil Simon play. In preparing an Essay on Simon and American humor, Kanfer found that the notes from his interview with the playwright mystically rearranged themselves into dramatic form. 2 a.m. on Third Avenue, Manhattan. NEIL SIMON is walking his shaggy dog and, improbably, swinging a tennis racket. An AMORPHOUS MASS suddenly takes the shape of an ageless human being. It taps SIMON on the shoulder...
Even the smile disappears, leaving nothing but a man and a dog. They walk home morosely. The dog goes to sleep, and the man goes to work, producing eleven plays, six films and five musicals in the next two years. They match the G.N.P. dollar for dollar, making the AMORPHOUS MASS, the critics and the IRS delirious. SIMON continues to swing his racket in the dark, waiting either for a bus or an inspiration for a new and purely serious masterpiece. Neither vehicle arrives...