Word: dog
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...They were laughing at him. A man of traditional views and settled habits, he is comically out of step with the new age. His children would rather watch television than heed his commands on deportment, and even the dog no longer takes him seriously. His wife, fed up with his aloof dignity, has a one-night fling with an American soldier. Determined to regain her affection, Shunsuke goes heavily into debt to build a modern, American-style house. That pile becomes a metaphor for the marriage and much else. The roof leaks. Plants die on the sunbaked veranda. And when...
...Marie Cox is the author of the Washington novel Dog Days...
...against Miller of dereliction and lying to Congress about his role in the scandal. The report concludes that at Gitmo Miller was unaware a canine had been used to intimidate alleged "20th hijacker" Mohammed al-Qahtani, or that al-Qahtani was forced to don women's underwear and perform dog tricks--even though Miller was intimately involved in planning al-Qahtani's interrogation. The report even lavishes praise on Miller, noting the "strength, energy and effectiveness of [his] leadership." Miller's military lawyer told TIME: "The IG is entirely correct in fact...
...matter," warning that Miller will be recalled before the panel to explain himself. Sources close to the powerful committee say that anger at Miller has escalated sharply since he invoked his right to avoid self-incrimination and refused to testify in the detainee-abuse trial of an Abu Ghraib dog handler. In that case, defense lawyers argued that their client was following guidelines from Abu Ghraib military-intelligence chief Colonel Thomas Pappas, who in turn has said under oath that Miller advocated using dogs to "get information" from prisoners...
...Rita (Danny Perea), the cute, older girl-next-door. Questions about a painting in Flama’s living room, which appropriately depicts symbolic migrating ducks, reveal that his parents are amidst a messy divorce. In a blurry imagistic monologue, Ulises soliloquizes about loosing his job at a dog pound because he refused to euthanize the unclaimed animals. Moko and Flama’s relationship, which may be more than platonic, is complicated by Rita’s sexual advances towards Moko. Suddenly, an adolescent paradise becomes a lotus-eater limbo with all four lingering between youth and adulthood. Through...