Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Receptionist. Unlike the 19th century European immigrants who believed that the streets of America were literally paved with gold, Gourin's émigrés know that the cobblestones are rough-but not so rough as at home. "You've got to work like a dog, do jobs that Negroes and North Africans do in France," says one returned Gourinois. "Still, practically everybody in Gourin has some friend or relative there." Each Christmas Gourin gets 10,000 greeting cards from New York-and many contain dollars...
...like to make sort of documentaries," says Grooms. "Something you can see as it happens-what people wear and do." Often he makes wooden constructions that are as simple as a man petting a dog. "In itself," he says, "that's a cozy act." Or, he confronts the viewer with Palace in Babylon, a cardboard mock-up of D. W. Griffith's 1916 film epic, Intolerance. As in a spectacular dollhouse, chariots, dancers, spear bearers, and potentates in braided beards are framed betwixt potbellied columns. Atop them trumpet curly-trunked elephants, seated like corpulent Hollywood-style brokers...
...thrown into a tizzy whenever he loses his security blanket. "Sucking your thumb without a blanket," he confides, "is like eating a cone without ice cream." Linus is Horatio Alger in reverse: "No problem is so big or so complicated that it cannot be run away from." Snoopy, the dog with the floppy ears and foolish smile, is the perfect hedonist. He dances, skates, jumps rope, hunches like a vulture but above all likes to lie flat on his back on the top of his doghouse awaiting supper -which sometimes includes a dish of sherbet on the side. Snoopy...
...because he is sort of pompous and grandiose. I like Brahms better"). Lucy is in love with Schroeder, but he is too busy with Beethoven to care. She gets revenge. She invites Schroeder to play at a "dinner party," and Schroeder finds himself serenading Snoopy over a bowl of dog food...
...little." Born in Minneapolis in 1922, Schulz was dubbed Sparky (after the rambunctious, blanket-draped horse in the strip Barney Google) when he was two days old, and the name stuck. As a boy, Sparky avidly read the comics, sketched illustrations of Sherlock Holmes stories and of his own dog Spike (Snoopy's model). "He was," says Schulz, "the most intelligent dog there ever was. You could say 'Spike, go get a potato,' and Spike would go down to the cellar and come back with one. When I was about 16 I used to chip nine-iron...