Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dog, wedged in between Guisseppe Gelato and the Coffee Connection, celebrates its first birthday this month. Perhaps the location itself is a jinx: replacing a short-lived flavored popcorn emporium, Top Dog seldom appears to attract lines of customers any longer than the phantom queues of its defunct predecessor. Featuring hot dogs with a variety of toppings, chili dogs, and freshly baked french fries, the hot dog king caters to a mixed crowd, according to Estelle, the owner...
After the Bruin goal, however, the game's biggest offensive star was a dog that bounded onto the field, joined the fray, executed a snazzy breakaway and proceeded to bite the ball voraciously...
...Death Is a Lone- ly Business, and he dedicates the work to such masters of the form as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are about as close to this beachfront vaudeville as Mars and Saturn are to Pluto (the Disney dog, not the planet). It hardly matters. All of the productions, from Something Wicked This Way Comes to The Martian Chronicles, are portions sawed from a long plank called Bradbury. Brief or full length, they bear the characteristic fine grain, knots, splinters and warps...
Since the movie doesn't star a frumpy dog with a sad face, it stars a crippled kid with a sad face (Corey Haim). The kid zips around town in a motorized wheelchair called "The Silver Bullet," longingly watches his buddies play baseball, sneaks out of his room late at night to light fireworks and does other such adorable things...
REMEMBER HOW YOUR MOTHER used to invade the sanctity of your bedroom to tell you that the garbage had to be taken out, the leaves had to be raked, the dog walked and the dishes washed? Sure you remember. You hated...