Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old black girl, got off a bus on Route 9 and disappeared. Four days later the onetime cheerleader was found in a daze, crawling into a garbage bag in the backyard of her family's former apartment complex. Her hair was crudely cropped, her body smeared with dog feces, her chest inscribed in charcoal with the letters KKK and the word NIGGER. At the hospital, a black policeman asked Brawley, "Who did it?" She reached for his badge and scrawled on a piece of paper, "white...
...couldn't imagine who it was going to be, because from what I heard, a lot of actors that you would probably know by name were very interested in this, so I had no idea who it was going to be. All of a sudden, in walks this little dog, and then in walks Amadeus. I'm saying, "Wow, holy shit!" And he was wondering who he was going to be matched up with. He saw Something Wild and liked my work, and I liked his work. So we were just very open because we knew what the story...
...childhood head injury has left "Nicky" (Tom Hulce) a bit "slow" mentally. At the beginning of the film, Nicky jokingly asks his dog, "I wonder who's stupider, you or me?" For a while, this seems a legitimate question, but Nicky's charm begins to dominate the film. Hulce, best known for his title role in Amadeus, brings to life a beauty that transcends physical appearances or social graces. Caught up in his own childlike world of superheroes and comic books, Nicky is as irresistible as a puppy...
...provides pasta and advice for the twins. After one of Nicky's blunders upsets Gino, she observes, "He's a beautiful boy, Eugene. He's God's boy." Tom Signorelli is funny as the priest to whom devoutly Catholic Nicky turns. He comforts Nicky on the loss of his dog with, "Mrs. Gianelli told me about Fred. I'm sorry. They go to Heaven too, you know...
...antithesis of Store 24, CNF probably has more healthy food per unit area than any other place in Cambridge. Bins full of groats and granola fill the middle aisle, and instead of carcinogenic hot dogs, CNF carries Tofu Pups--The Uncommon Dog...