Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Captain Midlife has never got it into his thick if frangible skull that his life is exactly where it is, consisting of a loving wife, three loving children and a loving dog, which, while no Westie, has much fine oddness to recommend it. Well, sometimes he understands this, and sometimes he does not. When he does not, his mind packs up its belongings and sets sail like Ulysses (the very first Captain Midlife), hopping from port to port, dreaming up a storm. The Captain knows too well what the voyage of Ulysses was all about. Circe gives the old come...
Both Berenger and Poitier have screen presences which generate their power more from a natural dignity than from affability or audience sympathy--more like Nicholson than William Hurt, for example. But in a dog like Shoot to Kill, an actor needs to be liked more than respected; it's impossible to keep a regal bearing in a circus of fools. The writers seemed to have recognized this problem, but their attempts at humanizing humor fall far short. In one scene for example, Poitier and Berenger are confronted by a bear, do a "Yikes!" take, and run away. Not even...
...last long. Nor did the bureau. As the Communist forces of Mao Zedong swept to power in 1949, Watt's TIME colleagues were evacuated to Hong Kong and she followed. The Communists were not sorry to see her go. Recalls Watt, now 70: "They considered me a running dog of the imperialists...
...death, killing," predicted Vickie Singer, a leader of the polygamous clan holding out in a log cabin against some 150 police and FBI agents in Marion, Utah. When authorities finally broke the 13-day siege last week, her grim prophecy became truth. Lieut. Fred House, 35, a state prison dog handler, was killed by shots from the cabin. The clan's male leader, Addam Swapp, 27, was wounded by officers. After the exchange of gunfire, the remaining 14 family members, including nine children, surrendered without injury...
...shooting erupted as Swapp walked from the fortified cabin to a nearby goat pen, approaching a spot where police and FBI agents were hiding. As planned, Lieut. House set loose an attack dog in an effort to capture him. But the dog hesitated, and when House stepped from cover to encourage the animal, he became an easy target. Singer, whose husband John was killed by police in a similar siege nine years ago, believed that further violence would lead to John's resurrection...