Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bravo to Stefan Kanfer for his Essay on "The Decline and Fill of the American Hot Dog" [Oct. 2]. His invigorating article on those insalubrious "finger-shaped monsters" has certainly deadened my desire for them. I will never again eat another hot dog...
...dog is fading away...
...TIME's apparent endorsement of a statement that the hot dog is a "deadly missile" is a great disappointment to me and, I'm sure, to millions of other loyal fans of this cherished American tradition...
...rises in Act II, Jacobson comes alive and displays a brilliance equalled only by one other actor. The sensitivity which Jacobson finally brings to the play is masterfully manipulated in his physical movements. The delicate stroking of his fingers and the emotional outbursts at the deaths of his pet dog and Curley's wife show promising talent. However, the part is so uniquely difficult that few, if any, actors could master it completely...
Europeans have customarily treated the wiener as a shaggy hot-dog story, absurdly amusing but not to be consumed too often or too seriously. It is quite possible that Whole Earth sensibilities, newly sophisticated palates and consumerism may yet do in the little sausage whose manufacturers arrogantly refuse to beef it up - or pork it out. In that case, the great American hot dog will be only a memory. And, perhaps, many of the cherished institutions that seemed to go with...