Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Simon, the chairman, who still has a whiff of the Wall Street buccaneer about him. For the next 15 or 30 minutes they take the economic pulse all the way from the condition of the winter-wheat crop (better than expected) to the state of mind of Teamster Top Dog Frank Fitzsimmons (angry over NBC's scathing profile of him). Then, at least once a week, their findings, their moods, their urgings, are conveyed to the President...
...played by Chris Sarandon (the transvestite of Dog Day Afternoon), the rapist does not fit the profile of the typical sex offender, a street punk making his way up from petty theft to murder. No, he is Margaux's kid sister's music teacher, soliciting her influence to gain a hearing for his electronic compositions. Nor is his attack a brutish lunge out of the dark. The rape is strictly high fashion - a handsome bedroom setting, the victim tied prettily with silk scarves while he sodomizes her, the whole busi ness staged and photographed with stylish prurience...
...people around you were real mean-looking and not-particularly-dressed-up either and coming out of XXX Bookstores and lying in the gutter, so you went into the theater and saw this show with happy songs--"happiness is two kinds of ice cream"--and a dog that sings and guy whose kite won't fly, only you didn't laugh at any of the jokes 'cause they weren't funny, only the chaperone...
...cast members handle the material superbly; Leslie Koenig's direction has resulted in a tight and fast moving ninety minutes. Greg Smith's Charlie Brown is a sincere, handsome if "wishy-washy" little guy with a faint trace of southern accent. Jim Meier's Snoopy is a dog that thinks he's a dancing ham; his "Suppertime" threatens to steal the show, but the larceny is foiled by the full cast's elaborate "Book Report." Bobbie Hendricks as Patty and Patty Low as Lucy turn in competent performances. David Frutkoff is terrific as the blanket-wielding Linus...
...really is. Or is it? If it isn't, then it's a good thing that little kids don't understand it. I certainly wouldn't want my little kid to be exposed to a message so inherently defeatist--even though you can't hit a baseball, and your dog only likes you because you feed him, and you pay your nickels to an amateur psychiatrist and you'll probably never amount to a hill of beans, don't worry, Charlie Brown and Everyman...