Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...background for links, figuring rightly that the author would have buried the pendant in a place he knew. Ultimately, however, success was due as much to luck as to deduction. Driving past Ampthill Park one afternoon, near a spot where Williams had once lived, Thomas let his dog out for a run. The dog gave him a leg up on his search by discovering a stone in the park inscribed with a passage from Psalm 104: "The earth is full of thy riches." Near by was a cross that memorialized Catherine of Aragon...
...Communism, the Mexican authorities have allowed Cuban military aid to reach the Guatemalan insurgents across Mexican territory. There is little doubt that Mexico is playing a double game in the region. As a senior Guatemalan official put it last week: "Mexico thinks that by throwing meat to the Cuban dog, it can avoid being bitten itself...
...this week; true, he doesn't leap so high as he used to; and true, his performance is not a model of precision. But for arrogant sexiness, for self-confident cockiness, for unmistakable style, for sheer class, he's got it all. Rudolf Nureyev may be an old dog, but the needs no new tricks...
...pretty silly for us to be advising the country on foreign policy." Brooks was no longer smiling. "Those people who are pushing for it are the same people who argued for unilateral disarmament. They want us to roll over on our backs like a defeated dog and say everything will go on happily ever after." Bernard Friedelson, a businessman, was anything but defeatist in his rebuttal. Said he: "To reverse the trend toward nuclear warfare is a voyage of a million miles. Like all voyages, it starts with a single step. This town meeting is the place to take that...
Love has its own secrets, but the "water" sub-plot of this forked work has a complexity too. In fact, it gives Cheever an ideal playground for assembling one of his patented concatenations of weird events. A down and out barber shoots his dog in full sight of his neighbors, two women wrestle in a supermarket, a baby is mistakenly abandoned. Also, Cheever cannot was quite to eloquent nor so humorous about the country side as he can about sex. But he succeeds in constructing his labyrinth of characters and circumstances more significantly and puts forth a well-crafted threnody...