Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: Look at the advantages, dearest. Because of this brilliant legal breakthrough, faulty dog-poop removal may be proper grounds for divorce...
...when Jasper John's Out the Window sold for $3.6 million, the highest sum ever paid for the work of a living artist. Last week the old master drawings owned by John Ryan Gaines, a Kentucky horse breeder and the son of the founder of the Gaines dog-food company, fetched $21 million. The top seller: Leonardo da Vinci's Child with a Lamb, a group of sketches in brown ink, which was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., for $3.6 million...
Morris writes tellingly about the bonds between his characters and their pets, a subject that does not crop up too often in serious fiction. Victrola recounts a day in the life of a man named Bundy and the dog he inherited when an upstairs neighbor died. As he runs his errands, Bundy notices that other dogs no longer pay any attention to his faithful companion: "One by one, as Bundy's dog grew older, the younger ones ignored him. He might have been a stuffed animal leashed to a parking meter. The human parallel was too disturbing for Bundy...
...Sorry, pal," he said. "That kind of money wouldn't even pay for what my dog throws up." Comedy I don't need, not when I'm on White House business. I hung up and called another contractor...
After weeks of preparation and anticipation, the 30 students had an opportunity to party with Mass Hall's top dog, President Derek...