Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What kind of dog was Checkers...
Five minutes later, he repeated the order. When again there was no response, an officer crept behind a wall near the house and threw a sizzling tear-gas canister through the tattered window curtains. A mangy, dun-colored dog scurried off the porch...
...spell to give them all a chance to write White-Collar Journals and achieve some sense of regained self. But of course, as Coleman notes, this society supports him and not them, and if anyone wrote a White-Collar Journal he would be as indignant as the dog that used to chase its tail, before the tail turned on the dog one day and fixed it, but good...
...know what you want to do until you start. That is catch-23. Panic breaks that circle. Finally a certain force in the accumulated material begins to form a pattern. Most people think that you build a skeleton and then you know whether you are going to write a dog, a giraffe or whatever. What happens, in fact, is that you do a perfect little finger, and then you do four others, and then you write a wrist. You begin to get a sense of what kind of animal it might...
...thriller evaporate in the opening sequence. Two mob gunmen arrive at a back-country farm to make a hit. Their quarry is doing some chores. Without a word, they confront him, pull their weapons, shoot him twice in the heart, and go away. Around his still body his pet dog capers and moans. Over in the corral a horse paces desperately. And the screen door on the porch bangs open and closed in the wind. Cliches are not the exclusive province of dialogue...