Word: dog
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...Leonardo da Vinci, Daniela Simpson was outside the terminal walking the family dog while her husband Victor, the Associated Press news editor in Rome, was checking bags and obtaining boarding passes for the couple and their two children for a TWA flight to New York. "Suddenly there was a shattering noise . . . and two distinct machine-gun bursts," recalled Mrs. Simpson, who reports in Rome as a TIME stringer. "And then silence. I rushed in to screams and cries, and saw my husband dripping blood from his hand and my son on the floor, shot in the stomach. They were...
...national preoccupation with quick results and a runaway trend toward bigness. The narrative is slow in starting, repetitive, and too often dotted with clichés and awkward syntax. It sorely lacks a detailed explanation of Lehman's management structure, and it is overburdened with irrelevant details such as whose dog was vomiting while key negotiations were under way. Still, the book's eventual energy is propulsive, and even at its weakest moments, Auletta's tale is buoyed along by the sheer venom of its gossip...
...Late last week, on an oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, a specially trained Labrador retriever, flown in by helicopter from Franklin, La., discovered marijuana in a worker's luggage. The employee was fired on the spot, and shared a ride back to the mainland with the dog and its handler...
...member of the three-judge panel, ruled that Herbert had no grounds to take his case to trial. The CBS story, Kaufman wrote, was essentially accurate. To go to trial over some minor unresolved issues would be, the judge wrote, a "classic case of the tail wagging the dog...
Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) has made a fortune in coat hangers and has a life-style, but not much of a life, to show for it. He drives a Rolls, has a white-on-white-on-white living room and employs a psychiatrist for his dog, a lovable mutt named Matisse. Like any good Beverly Hills matron, Barbara Whiteman (Bette Midler) employs a guru and a nutritionist among the many other functionaries who cannot seem to solve her problems, which include too many migraines and too few orgasms. Their adolescent children, naturally, are having trouble with their sexual identities...