Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welcome here if she wants to come, of course." "Here" is a farmhouse on twelve acres in Wales, where Michael, having abandoned the $78,000 mansion that his mother gave him, now lives in a commune with Wife Beth, Baby Leyla, six friends, an old goat and a mongrel dog named Wally...
MUCH OF THE HUMOR in Yojimbo is based on Kurosawa's sense of irony. For instance, when the samurai enters the town, the first sight that greets him is of a small dog. Rinky-dink music accompanies the dog as he trots towards the foreground. Finally, the animal is in perfect focus and one can discern that in its mouth is--a human hand...
...high-priced meats in favor of fish, fowl and eggs. I have been boycotting high-priced items for months now, not by choice, but out of necessity-and to no avail. The choice of foods I can afford is becoming increasingly limited. Maybe by the time I start comparing dog-food labels for nutritional content, the Government will have started really doing something about this deplorable situation...
...companies stood silently at attention as a bugler sounded the Last Post. Cathal Goulding, the Dublin-based chief of staff of the I.R.A. Officials, delivered the funeral oration. Clad in a red sweater, his long hair blowing in the breeze, Goulding declaimed that McCann had been "shot like a dog by the agents of imperialism...
...streets in Central Time, resting themselves so that they could cheer for me and thrust orange quarters my way. I guess it was Skiddy von Stade who said they continue to become great housewives and mothers. It's the sort of phenomenon that always leads me to dog it for the mile preceding Wellesley and then turn it on just before I reach the College...