Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needs a political-satire magazine has sustained Monocle this long. But Navasky's faith appears to be ebulliently obstacle-proof. In 1962, with the magazine at death's door as usual, Navasky launched The Outsider's Newsletter, a weekly compendium of fanciful news items (POLICE DOG MADE HONORARY MISSISSIPPI CITIZEN) that loses more than its parent does. Just this week Monocle's editor announced a plan that should significantly enlarge the annual deficit. From now on, said Navasky, Monocle will reach its 20,000 paid readers every other month...
Calder constructs his colossi segment by segment in a studio near his 15th century farmhouse nestled against a limestone cliff, overlooking vineyards and crouched cottages in the chateau country of Touraine. The sculptures bear terse, functional names, such as Dog, Long Nose or Snowplow, tower above the trim countryside. Yet, the neighbors call Calder "le Bricoleur"- the Tinker-because he is always willing to pause from his work and shape a tiny bright metal toy for one of their children...
...Their dog is called Mr. Bonnard.) Behind her seemingly bland suburban life, she is passionately preoccupied with the conflict between appearance and reality. Her bizarrely clad and contorted figures, divided fore and aft in space, are rounded with confusing contours, so that they float between the flat surface of the canvas and its artfully contrived depths...
...case anyone has been in hiding for the last two years, Beyond The Fringe is a series of 20-odd bits; many just acted out shaggy-dog jokes that set up a punch line. Three pansies don yellow rain bonnets and finally record basso profundo--a rugged TV ad for "the Man's cigarette." Other skits are extended and often scathing parodies like the first act closer, a merciless debunking of Britain's heroic World War II effort Listening to Dame Myra Hess (a scraggly gray wig accomplishes this transformation) play the moonlight sonata in those courageous British Museum Concerts...
...second of category: hound. Only other hound to win best dog at Westminster since the club began the category in 1907 was an Afghan: Shirkhan of Grandeur...