Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Governor Mario Cuomo, his wife Matilda, two of their children and the family dog were upstairs in the executive mansion in Albany last week when a neighbor, Julian Quarles, 25, paid them an unexpected visit. Sometime between midnight and 7 a.m., Quarles climbed a 7-ft.-high fence outside the house, broke a window to unlock the front door, and walked in, unnoticed by the two guards stationed outside. He took a video recorder, a silver punch bowl, two candlesticks, a tray, a coffee urn and two platters...
...anniversary. It was on Oct. 4, 1957, that Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, was launched, its thin, metallic beep announcing that the space age had begun. Since then, the Soviets have scored a notable string of other cosmic firsts: the first animal in space (a dog), the first man, the first woman. The first space walk was taken by a cosmonaut. The first pictures of the moon's hidden side were shot by an orbiting Soviet camera. The first simultaneous launch of two manned flights and the first three-man craft were also Soviet accomplishments...
...rolled up in waves and secured the old farmhouse, as well as surrounding environs. The little granddaughters with their little girls' peanut-shaped bodies gamboled half-naked on the lawn. Scatology being the stock and trade of little boys' humor, the littlest grandsons strategically maneuvered a plastic dog dropping everywhere they thought the thing's disgusting appearance might provoke a rise, giggling as they schemed. For the adults, the kitchen would be the free-fire zone; everyone would take his best shot, the vegetarians would sup alongside the carnivores...
...soon the fad faded in red ink and rancor. The same black community leaders who would urge Paramount Pictures to suppress Ralph Bakshi's "racist" film Coonskin (and, a decade later, Sam Fuller's White Dog) were condemning blaxploitation as image suicide. Moreover, white liberal producers, reluctant to portray black men as rapists and dopers, failed to come up with alternatives. "If you're not working," says Actor Stan Shaw (Roots II), "you don't "get better...
...film reflects life, it can also help shape it. Actor Paul Winfield (Sounder, White Dog) recalls growing up in Seattle in the 1940s. "All the blacks would sit in the movie theater balcony," he says. "Nigger heaven, they used to call it. Then one night we saw Stanley Kramer's Home of the Brave, the first picture we'd seen in which a black was not a Stepin Fetchit, and we resolved never to sit in the balcony again...