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...order that her soprano speaking voice match up with Cline's whiskey-throated contralto. Unfortunately for Lange, realism in this context is more often than not equivalent to boredom--six scenes of Cline trying to pull together the threads of her life after either an out-and-out dogfight with second husband Charlie Dick (Ed Harris) or the continual drudgery of house-cleaning and motherhood are simply five too many...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Dream On | 11/7/1985 | See Source »

...thought I could win," Smith said, "but I knew I was in for a dogfight...

Author: By John Zilcosky, | Title: Netwomen Trounce Elis; Crimson Survives Scare | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Five candidates stage a dogfight for the majority leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Wrangle in the Senate | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Theatrics is a legitimate part of statecraft. But how much? The principal memory from the great New Hampshire debate a fortnight ago was the dogfight between John Glenn and Walter Mondale. The spectacle was geared for combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Politics as Gong Show | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...gamble," says SOLD: JDGL, who is Jim Lindsay, a retired physicist. His wife Jeanette, a retired schoolteacher, is reassuring: "It looks like a dogfight, but there is a lot of sharing too. People help each other." The Lindsays have been regulars for 20 years. The 12-ft. butcher-block counter they bought today for $50 will go under, or on, or behind the piles of salvage that fill their own basement and the basement in the house next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: High-Tech Junkyard | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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