Word: dog
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...fallen for a tall, blonde (human) bombshell in bobby socks and a yellow housedress. Having taken up residency on her retriever, the flea colony is forced to endure several trials for the sake of the head flea’s love. They’re rejected by the dog and assaulted by a vacuum cleaner before losing one of their number to a strip of fly tape...
...other disappointment lies with Levinson. He is, after all, the auteur of the wonderfully savage Wag the Dog, which much more successfully combined the thriller style with outrageously funny political satire. It?s OK for him to be angry with the machinations of corporate America, to suspect that it will stop at nothing to protect its interests. But there is something routine about his paranoia here, something that belongs in a different film. He has a great topic in Man of the Year - a smart and unlikely Everyman , an outsider used to speaking truth to power, who now has power...
...Saddest Moment - Having an infantry battalion commander hand me the dog tags of one of my Marines who had just been killed while on a mission with his unit. Hit by a 60mm mortar. He was a great Marine. I felt crushed for a long time afterward. His picture now hangs at the entrance to our section area. We'll carry it home with us when we leave in February...
...She’s Harvard. So Are You.” the cover coos. The magazine is also embarrassing. One bit, entitled “Identity Theft,” carps at organizations that have employed the Harvard name to elevate themselves: “The Harvard of dog-training schools;” “The Harvard of Pilates Teacher Training Programs.” The irony was apparently lost on 02138. Such self-adoration, particularly when feigned as irritation, is in ignorance of a staple Harvard trait: good taste. The real trouble with 02138 is that...
...They come in to the office with a stack of dog-eared x-ray folders, a plastic grocery store bag full of reports and things printed off the Internet. Earnest and hopeful, they tell me they even apologize in advance to the patient crowd in the waiting room for the very long time they are about to take. They are coming in for a "second-opinion...