Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Newsman Robert Wagner was seized by armed Klansmen as he tried to cover their secret meeting in a barn not far from Baton Rouge. He was forced to remove his trousers, lie in a poison ivy patch, where he was beaten with a belt before being shoved into a dog pen on a truck. Beaten again, he was released under a threat of death if he reported the incident...
...Touch of the Dog. "What will die with me when I die, what pitiful or perishable form will the world lose?" Borges wonders, recalling childhood friends and memories. "The voice of Macedonio Fernández? The image of a roan horse on the vacant lot at Serrano and Charcas? A bar of sulphur in the drawer of a mahogany desk...
...into a rigid system. Variety must be respected: "Never can my dreams engender the wild beast I long for. The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or the bird...
...acting in the legitimate theater. And both are always fun to watch and at times as real as one could wish. But because of Costigan's myopia, no clear Mavis or Emil (or Edward for that matter) ever comes through; the only consistent performance is from Barney, the sheep-dog (played, the program reports, by Patrick, the sheep-dog). And he can't save the show. Baby Want A Kiss some how manages to be as inane as its title...
...noted last week. Venetians liked Don Carlos for a while, but cooled to him when he began pouring out whiskey "in spoonfuls." And so the splendiferous Spaniard turned to a new hobby: refurbishing a castle near Paris, where he is building a neo-Gothic tomb for his recently deceased dog...