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...hanging out, snow-dusted porkpie knocked to the left, coat hooked to a thumb over his shoulder. Hanging on to a sky-blue cafeteria ticket as if it's the strap keeping him on his feet." There's hardly a mot here that's not juste. Likewise, a cartoon dog evokes "the obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy...
...mercenary in wars across France, the Netherlands and southeast Europe to the edge of the Ottoman Empire. Captured and sold into slavery, he wound up at a remote Black Sea military outpost, where a Turkish officer shaved Smith's head and riveted an iron ring around his neck. "A dog could hardly have lived to endure" the routine beatings and starvation rations that followed, Smith wrote in his colorful and epic autobiography...
...CLASSIC VILLAINS HAVE BEEN shortchanged," says Peter Dinklage, who's Simon Barsinister, the orotund baddie in this summer's update of the '60s cartoon series Under-dog. "They've been cheated out of something by the hero. They'll do anything to get it because they've been overlooked in the past...
...fund-raising comes first. As her campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, discovered, Obama "works the phones like a dog. He probably did three to four times the number of events she did" in the first quarter. "No matter who I call," McAuliffe says, "he has already called them three or four times." So Clinton is stepping up the pace of her cash raising. Instead of big galas, she will be doing more fund-raisers in smaller settings that offer extra attention from the candidate - especially for those contributors who can pony up the maximum $4,600 total allowed...
...character who’s meant to acutely affect the lives of the women he meets. Brody appears as nothing more than a friendly, lovelorn jokester who is unintentionally swept up into Stewart’s clichéd teenage life and Ryan’s rambling, anecdotal dog walks.Perhaps the only redeeming factor of “Women” is the performance of veteran acting great Olympia Dukakis (“Steel Magnolias,” “Moonstruck,” “Mr. Holland’s Opus”). Dukakis’ comically...