Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you or anyone else." In In the Penal Colony, needles write the excruciating message BE JUST on the back of a condemned man. In Investigations of a Dog, the canine narrator cannot admit that his species is subject to the whim and will of a larger power...
...says. "I've been called 'nigger' only once in my life. There's very little anger in my humor." Pryor's movie characters show the resentment and vulnerability of the underdog; Eddie, in front of the cameras or away from them, is a hot dog, full of sass and guileless assurance. The Murphy analysis: "Richard's funny as the victim, but I'm funnier when I try to fight back. Maybe the star of the '90s will be the funny black guy who runs the show. It would be nice...
...subject of Christian belief. Their spirited exchange, waged before an enthralled and partisan audience of locals, is declared a draw. But the combatants have persuaded each other to switch positions. The minister resigns his post and faith, moves east and becomes a suave, voice-over pitchman in dog food TV commercials; the doctor takes up tub-thumping evangelical crusading. Late in the novel, a rematch is arranged. Once again, the debaters each wind up convinced that the other is right, but this time they embrace on the middle ground of skeptical belief. Tony gladly joins them: "My new mystique...
...deck of the U.S.S. Fairfax County, while you waited for liberty to begin, you watched a press conference on the pier below. You thought it was a dog and pony show, and you would tell a reporter that later. Down below you could hear your commanding officer telling a TV woman, who wanted to know if you planned to tear the town apart: "Marines are always told to act in a disciplined manner. They will act like Marines." You ached to get off that ship...
...love the smell of Malamute in the morning!" With this glad cry, Donald Quinelle (Robin Williams) mushes his dog sled through the snows of New England, eager for his climactic battle with an enemy who, like Donald, has surrendered to the fantasy that violent action, backed by deadly skills in the martial arts, is a necessity for survival in America today. Too bad he has to call time out in their gunfight because he brought the wrong bullets with...