Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only person who has ever been asked to leave a Woolworth store because my autistic son started howling with fear when someone's dog came up to sniff him over. The dog was tolerated, but society is unable to accommodate this kind of misbehavior in public from a deviant human...
Dressing Up. "Our environment was on the highest level of the absurd," recalls Candice Bergen, another childhood friend. "Our birthday parties, for example, were organized follies. There had to be trained-dog acts, magicians, cartoons, triple screenings of new movies?every imaginable extravagance. One of our friends even had an electric waterfall. It was all highly surrealistic, like living in a big playroom." Liza adds: "I remember a picture flashed through my mind, like a painting, at one of the parties. I had a feeling: This is not the average. This isn't the ordinary life...
...trouble.' And I say 'Yes we are.' So our cops are headed home and this truck comes cruising out of the woods with an old redneck bear with a big gut at the wheel. Cruising out there with a six pack of beer and a mean old dog in the back and gun racks in the window and the cops stop him and he's just been cruising around, y'understand, fox hunting I believe it was, and they see he's packing a wild west .44 shotgun. The cop goes up to him and asks him if he could...
...should I be mad? And you, YOU can sure as hell see ME. Why just step back into the woods with me about half a mile and my dog'll trot along to drag you out after I'm finished with you and your goddamn measly worm-eaten carcass...
...Goddamn! Cops out to stop everybody from having a little fun. They try to pick on some boys and they run into ME!' And he and his truck and his rifle and his dog in the back jostle and bump back into the woods over little clumps of palmetto scrub and burnt out stumps, looking for foxes...