Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once famous dog Checkers is recalled in Richard Nixon's checkered silks. As for Ronald Reagan's polka dots, Democrat Conrad says in a frankly partisan spirit that they represent a clown's suit-or, to put it more politely, theatrical attire. George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller are done in "recessive" blue; that is not a political assessment, but only Conrad's way of pushing them back in the perspective of the picture. And the red and white stripes on Percy? Replies the artist, who may possibly have more political savvy than he realizes: "This just...
...gown at the dinner honoring Turkey's President Cevdet Sunay. The baby is expected June 17 or thereabouts, and the Nugents are still grappling for a name. "Kimberly is my favorite name in the whole world," confided Luci. "But since I couldn't wait and named my dog that, I guess I shouldn't name a baby the same thing...
...might run into this thing in Rusty Nail, Ark.," said Jazz Pianist George Shearing, 47. "But in Chicago, I don't feel it should exist." Blind since birth, Shearing had walked into the Little Embers Restaurant, accompanied as always by his guide dog Leland, a golden retriever. Sorry, no pooch, the maitre d' told him. Shearing explained the obvious. No dog-against the city's health code, repeated the maitre d'. So Shearing decided to make a case of it. "I don't want any exception for me," he said, "I want exceptions for every...
...barbarian, fighting against the Romans at the siege of Ravenna. When Droctulft's eyes fix on the city he is helping to storm, he sees for the first time "a whole that is complex and yet without disorder. He knows that in the city he will be a dog or a child, and that he will not even begin to understand it, but that it is worth more than his god and his sworn faith and the German marshes." Droctulft deserts and dies fighting for dying Rome. "He was not a traitor," writes Borges. "He was a visionary...
Adopt for the moment the macro, that is to say, comprehensive point of view. No longer forced to rummage about for detail, be free to indulge in geographic and historic analogy. Consider Nathan's Famous. Not Nathan's Famous in Coney Island, hot-dog server to the world, but Nathan's Famous of Oceanside. Situated on the broad Long Island plane, accessible by car from all directions, Nathan's of Oceanside is what Harvard Square would be if city planners took teen-agers to heart and let traffic control go hang. Conceive a commodious space, roofed with wood, full...