Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Back to the Future is not strictly a comedy, laughs are plenty and hearty. And while the film starts slowly--with a typically Spielbergesque beginning that pictures the mad doctor's vast home-timer system that does everything from turn on the radio to feed the dog--it moves quickly along and years pass like minutes...
They still tell the story around the Harvard tennis courts about the day President Bok ventured down to view a Crimson match and what Harvard's top dog said about Harvard's then top-seeded tennis jock...
Steve's (31 Church St.) used to be the top dog, with mix-ins and its own line of T-shirts and hats. But when former owner Steve Herrell sold the store and founded Herrell's (15 Dunster St.), he did his old store one better. (At least most ice cream afficionados seem to think so.) You're more likely to stand in a line of tourists at Steve's, since everybody has heard of the granddaddy of them all. At Herrell's, however, you can sample a variety of less exotic, but deliciously sweet, ice cream without dealing with...
...birds were living on the rod, on my head, on my shoulder. I'd find a name I'd like -- say, Shmuck -- and just give the other birds sequel names: Shmuck II, Shmuck III. No imagination. At one time there were four Shmucks in the room. We had dogs, too. Except for a period of six years or so after my father brought a dog home and the dog snarled at me, knocked me over and chased me upstairs into my room. I was terrified of dogs at that point. But then I made friends with our neighbor's cocker...
There are annual cicadas all over the U.S. Most people call them dog-day cicadas, and their buzzy song is a part of the sound of late summer, like those of katydids and whippoorwills. But in the Eastern half of the country at long intervals early in the summer, periodic cicadas emerge from the ground where, in their juvenile form, they have been feeding on the sap of tree roots. All cicadas in a particular region are presumed to be of the same origin and appear in synchrony in early summer. In Northern states and along the eastern edge...