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Word: doggedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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That joke is the idea of a man who thinks he is a dog. During a North woods blizzard, jealous Reggie Shand (Christopher Lloyd) literally left his infant brother Robert to the wolves. Now, 30 years later, Penny (Amy Steel), a pretty young scientist, discovers "Bobo" (Mandel), whom the wolves have raised as one of their own. She returns Bobo to the Shand household, thwarting Reggie's plan to appropriate his brother's inheritance, now that he has squandered his own. Penny spends the rest of the movie trying to teach Bobo to act like a person, while Reggie tries...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Walk Like a Man | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...even travels with a plastic pink flamingo that he props outside the door wherever he parks. Most recently, the trailer -- and flamingo -- was parked in a wooded lot of a wealthy northern Virginia suburb while serving as home for Badanes, his itinerant opera-singing girlfriend Donna Walter, and their dog Floyd Bite (after Frank Lloyd Wright). But if a tacky trailer in an expensive Colonial suburb seems a little out of place to you, consider what Badanes and his three colleagues, architect-builders who call themselves the Jersey Devil, were constructing on the same lot: a multimillion-dollar house that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Homes with Gusto | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

Buettner-Janusch had been staying in the Tattersalls' Greenwich Village apartment, looking after their dog while the couple was away when, police say, he allegedly prepared the poisoned candy. Furthermore, chocolates were also sent to friends of the Tattersalls. Tattersall says that he feels betrayed. "He has not endeared his latter self to us," comments the museum curator...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Drugs And Chocolate | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

After the boss leaves, I’m alone in the office. I'm secure all right--secure in the knowledge that I probably won't be leaving this office until my 60th birthday. Then perhaps I might take a few hours off to walk my dog, who by that time will undoubtably have died from a rupture bladder...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Ulltimate Job | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard attack Leelee Groome's three second-half goals and a fearsome Crimson defense sent the Terriers panting back to the dog house. Groome finished with a game-high four goals...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Laxwomen Overcome Early Trouble, Pound B.U. Groome Gets Four Goals in 10-4 Crimson Romp | 4/22/1987 | See Source »

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