Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similarly, eight residents of Pelham, N.Y., had no way of suing even for medical expenses after they were bitten by a German shepherd owned by Barbados' Ambassador to the U.N., W.E. Waldron-Ramsey. When the village police chief threatened in 1975 to shoot the dog, Waldron-Ramsey warned against "possible international consequences...
...festivals, especially Puerto Rican Day in June, when some 250,000 members of the community parade up Fifth Avenue and turn Central Park into a joyous 840-acre cookout. It is then that Puerto Rican exuberance blossoms. Hotels and nightclubs rock to the three-two rhythms of salsa. Hot dog vendors watch forlornly as their all-American offerings are spurned in favor of bacalaitos (codfish fritters), alcapurrias (plantain-meat rolls) and tostones (fried plantains). The community comes ablaze - forgetting for a while the gritty realities of its plight...
...others do collapse, the Royals' professional hot dog waits in the bullpen: Al Hrabosky, known as the "Mad Hungarian," who is fond of stepping theatrically off the back of the mound to huff and puff himself up to what he deems his "rage point." So far this year, the enraged Hrabosky has saved 20 games that were slipping away...
Panic in Needle Park again. The junkies now share that defoliated triangle on Manhattan's Upper West Side with the dog walkers, but the city's notorious new scoop-the-poop law hit the books just as unions at the city's three major newspapers hit the bricks. So Needle Parkers, like animal owners elsewhere in the city, are suffering a dearth of newsprint with which to do their dirty work. Last week one Manhattan matron and keeper of 22 cats sent an urgent bulletin to her sister in Massachusetts: Load the station wagon with Boston Globes and come quick...
...writing and it's called Paddy's Network. Which is just as well, because Sidney Lumet was the wrong director for Paddy's script--which could only have worked under a flaky, crazy director with a sense of visual satire, not Lumet, who ridiculed television far better in Dog Day Afternoon. He does, however, evoke magnificent performances, especially from Peter Finch (who seems to have dropped out of sight lately), Faye Dunaway (well cast) and Robert Duvall. In any case, you would do well to pass this...