Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...befuddled paleontologist whose placid existence is completely upset by a one-woman whirlwind. Katherine Hepburn is the whirlwind, a rich, young New Yorker who enlists Grant's aid in caring for Baby, her pet leopard. Kate and Cary spend two hours ostensibly chasing Baby, Kate's dog George, and a bone Grant needs to complete a dinosaur skeleton; Kate, of course, is on the prowl for bigger game. Hepburn and Grant are at their comic best, and Howard Hawks' brilliant, fast-paced direction puts the finishing touch on this refreshingly irrelevant lunacy...
This doesn't sound like tha same person who wrote the Three Dog Night hit "Mama Told Me Not to Come...
...weeks the Administration had seemed becalmed. As the Bert Lance affair dragged on through the dog days of summer, much of the White House's time and energy-too much-was deflected by the latest press accusation or the newest plan to save the beleaguered Budget Director. Now, with October's brisk breezes and brilliant hues, the man in the Oval Office seemed to emerge reinvigorated. Suddenly, Jimmy Carter was in motion again-launching initiatives, planning journeys, defending his programs, attacking their detractors. But motion does not always equal progress, and the President's whirling-dervish routine...
...that a favorite phrase is missing or that an explanatory note is inadequate. Once that is remedied, the lexicographer says, he is through with major works. Eric Partridge fans have learned not to take him at his word. As he has written, there's life in the old dog yet (A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, page 219, column...
...feel strongly that if you're going to get anywhere, you have to work like a dog"--although that's not exactly the phrase Alexandra uses in more candid moments--and then work some more. "There are too many tall blondes out there" who are willing to be "glamorous baby dolls instead of actresses," she says, and unless she is willing to grind away and to use her brains she won't be able to compete in the show business world...