Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fair to raise funds for a local, racially mixed school. Dressed in a turquoise coatdress and squired by beaming Expectant Father Prince Charles, Diana was greeted with an impromptu baby shower. Among the gifts: a Teddy bear, a toy corgi (her mother-in-law's favorite breed of dog), a 12-lb. loaf of West Indian bread baked in the shape of a duck, and a lapel button that said CHARLIE IS MY DARLING. The royal couple never carry money, so an aide had to slip Di and Charles a few pence when they decided to play bingo...
Henley still lives in West Hollywood, in a rented house unrefurnished by success, with Actor Stephen Tobolowsky, who played a dog sweeper in Firecracker and a turkey jerker in Jamey Foster. Last year she herself appeared as a bag lady in a radical farce at Los Angeles' Odyssey Theater: "It keeps my childlike spirit alive to go out and do something really strange." When her schedule permits, she attends boxing matches at the Olympic Auditorium, goes to Dodger games or listens to jazz at the Parisian Room. And she still goes home to Jackson, though "it's different...
...destroyer to retrieve it. "Of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them," Roosevelt told a guffawing campaign audience. "You know, Fala is Scotch and . . . his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since...
...Hollywood Boulevard. The Studio Theater Playhouse, which is currently premiering a delightful musical version of Ray Bradbury's story Dandelion Wine, is in a working-class neighborhood near Los Angeles' Griffith Park, surrounded by warehouses. In a vacant lot next door to the Playhouse, a guard dog snarls at patrons from behind a chain-link fence. Inside, a remarkably sophisticated set recreates a cheerful Illinois town...
Sylvia Townsend Warner wore the disguise of an English country gentlewoman. These essays of reminiscence that she wrote from 1936 to 1973 seem to be dressed in tweeds and sensible walking shoes, with a faint, agreeable odor of dog hovering above the pages...