Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eight of us, eight Easterners from Boston and Connecticut and New Jersey, stood by and watched in amazement as hundreds of bronzed bodies flowed past us. We stood on the street, somebody wanted to sell us a dog, someone else wanted to sell us something else. We retreated to the airconditioned security of our seventh-floor room and watched the proceedings from there...
...that it will go away, like a pinging in your Mercedes motor. It is a measure of this powerfully vicious and powerfully funny satire on Hollywood-undoubtedly the least benign movie about moviemakers ever released -that the only character with completely decent instincts is the runner's faithful dog, who stands by his man to the end, trying to call attention to his plight...
...first Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker, who died after 66 days without food--gave the audience detailed descriptions of atrocities allegedly committed by the British against his brother and other IRA prisoners in the Maze prison, and said that "no man wants to live like that because no dog could live like that...
What persuaded her to seek drug treatment was an experience that could have killed her and her brother. Like many freebasers, they used sedatives to come down off a high. "You're wired up like a mad dog," says Mary, "and your body's been running at 150 miles an hour for days." One night, after freebasing in the rear of her van, they took some Quaaludes and passed out, leaving an unlit propane torch with its nozzle open-creating a risk that a stray spark could ignite the propane and blow...
...present, six nations definitely have the bomb, two probably have it, and by the end of the 1980s the prize will be within reach of some 40 other countries, not including roving mad-dog nations like the Red Brigades, which are panting to steal one readymade. For these gifts and expectations they may thank the current nuclear nations, some of which have been dispensing nuclear equipment as if there were no tomorrow...