Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often going on hunger strikes or catching troublesome diseases. For many French pets, those weeks of anguish are now a thing of the past. For about $3 per day, a new pet vacation club will find a pet-loving, nonvacationing family that will take in a cat or a dog-or even a parakeet or snake-during the owner's absence...
...receives a weekly "toilette" and food delicacies, and the host family* writes regular reports to the vacationing owner. The club even provides its own version of the Guide Michelin. Cat-housing families are awarded ratings of one mouse, two mice or three mice; and dog boarders get from one to three bones...
Some months after the war ended, a former Japanese military policeman gave U.S. occupation authorities 23 sets of dog tags that had been taken from U.S. prisoners of war who were in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. In the confusion of postwar Japan, their deaths were never publicly acknowledged. Most were captured airmen, and most doubtless died in the first shock wave. But Eyewitness Tamura clearly recalls seeing the bodies of two American P.O.W.s who had been beaten to death, apparently with rifle butts, by their military captors...
...crusts of French bread," for example, or "popping back on her feet like a piece of bread from a toaster." He does have a fine ear for dialogue and a relish for tattletales that make Madame entertaining bathtub reading. If someone would do him the favor of stealing his dog-eared thesaurus, he might even make a good gossip columnist. ·Gerald Clarke
Mutrux and Cinematographer William Fraker capture the feeling: the neon and chromium, the chili-dog stands, the freeways, the drive-in stereo stores and the supermarkets. Nearly all of the characters are played by junkies, not actors. They relive their lives for a camera that observes compassionately as each fix brings them that much closer to self-destruction. Mutrux views his characters as victims, if rather romantic ones. That attitude lends his film a distinct but unsatisfactory ambiguity...