Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workers scraped at the wreckage of one building with shovels, picks and even their bare hands, a middle-aged man in a worn leather jacket watched anxiously. Two of his daughters had died in his home's collapse. A rescuer , waved his hand for quiet: a dog was barking in the rubble. One of the workers reached into the debris and pulled out a white pup, trembling and whining. "Senor," said the worker, handing the animal to the grieving man. It was his dog. He cuddled it, trying to ease his own sorrow in comforting...
...away from Stanford and undergo psychiatric treatment. Under California law he could be held no longer and had to be released unconditionally. "I am happy to get out," he said. "Stanford treats students criminally. If I express remorse, I would not only be a murderer but a dirty lying dog...
...certain highly enjoyable level, After Hours is the year's best shaggy- dog story. But it is also a subtle exercise in comedic and cinematic stylization by Director Martin Scorsese. In films as varied as Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The King of Comedy, he has established himself as our leading poet-anthropologist of the contemporary urban landscape, an artist with a special feeling for the near psychopathic outsider, battering brutally but ineptly on the doors of bourgeois normality. In this movie, working on a $3.5 million shoestring, he has cunningly reversed himself. For Joseph Minion...
Listening to Johnny Most, the radio voice of the Celtics on WRKO (680 am), is like that. All the opponents cheat and hot dog, all the Celts glide. Former Washington center Rich Mahorn is McFilthy, his teammate Jeff Ruland is McNasty. Rambunctious Boston forward M.L. Carr is competitive and inspirational, not vicious and untalented...
...four nail-biting days, furious Elena was manic and capricious. First the storm feinted at New Orleans, then howled toward Florida's Gulf Coast, then veered off abruptly. The hurricane lunged and snarled at about 500 miles of waterfront in four states like a vicious dog on a leash. Many in its projected path began to feel like Service Station Attendant Johnny Leland in Yankeetown, Fla., who said, "I can't stand this. I just wish the s.o.b. would come in, hit us and get it over with...