Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ireland. "We found Freckles!" she shouted. Answering the call of the wild, the late Robert Kennedy's favorite spaniel had taken to the woods near the family estate in McLean, Va. A reward was offered, search parties combed the area, all to no avail. After a two-day dog hunt, Freckles slouched home on his own, muddy but unbowed...
...Year of the Dog in China, but for the world of fashion there seems to be no doubt that the sea son belongs to the snake...
...Builder Allen Quille, himself a black, set out to rehabilitate one area in order to sell it to black tenants, neighborhood gangs broke in nightly to steal the fixtures, then sold them back to him the next day. He built a fence and bought a watchdog; they stole the dog. Quille put the ringleader on his payroll, and the youth demanded huge raises...
...transitions that are attempted lack the barest suggestion of originality. It just so happens, for instance, that Grand is an avid TV-watcher, and his propensity to change channels lets Southern smuggle in random bits about a disguised puma that eats its competition at a silk-stocking New York dog show and two gnarled heavyweight contenders who prance to the center of the ring, embrace, and writhe down to the canvas moaning passionately. And the cruise aboard the Magic Christian pleasure liner inexplicably disintegrates into a freak orgy that gives werewolves, midgets, body-cultists, and gorillas the opportunity...
...while we are on the subject of nasality, let it be said that the use of Ringo Start is a barren promotional gimmick. His role (Youngman Grand, Sir Guy's adopted son) was contrived expressly for the movie version and is superfluous from beginning to end. The same puppy-dog non-acting that complements flashiness so well in Hard Day's Night and Help is sheer stupidity (which is not inappropriate) in Magic Christian. The only thing cheaper than Ringo's name on the theatre marquee is Raquel Weich's above it. Her lucrative, careermaking breasts quivered expressively throughout...