Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just any sheep dog will do. Such familiar breeds as the collie and German shepherd are herding dogs. They will drive a flock from place to place and keep sheep from straying. But such dogs need constant supervision. What is required is a different kind of canine, guarding dogs that will patiently watch over a flock for weeks at a time, even in a lonely pasture. A rancher need only appear occasionally to leave food. Usually large (up to 135 lbs.) and slow to anger, the animals stir to action only when their charges are threatened. They live with...
...blamed for the equipment God gave them. It's also rough on the file clerk, trying to keep her arms close to her body while she handles the heavy drawers. Few of these young people can summon the bravado to yell "Cut that out!" or "Go pat your dog!" as this 66-year-old woman has sometimes suggested...
...deep-down-inside-I'm-a-wonderful-guy Janus face of Don Rickles. To the post-funny comics, all the world's a cramped stage in a seedy Newark bar, and all the men and women -onstage or off-merely sweaty-palmed buffoons following the dog act. With devastating acuity, the post-funny comics evoke these laugh-cadging mendicants of the entertainment industry. And because the post-funnies are superb deadpan actors, their exaggeration has the gritty kick of a Fred Wiseman documentary. One does not titter so much as cringe...
Nevertheless, everyone wants famous Nathan to do the right thing. A stranger on a bus is disappointed to see him on public transportation and suggests buying a helicopter to "fly straight over the dog-poop." He is urged to invest his money elsewhere than in his shoe, dress more expensively and circulate with other celebrities. The result is Zuckerman in nighttown with a glamorous Irish actress named Caesara O'Shea who reads Kierkegaard and disappears in the morning to continue her top-secret affair with Fidel Castro...
...fund set up for him by California businessmen. Eisenhower thought seriously of throwing Nixon off the ticket. Nixon responded with the masterfully corny Checkers speech, in which he pharaonically denied wrongdoing and told the nation about his wife's "respectable Republican cloth coat" and his daughters' pet dog. It worked; the country loved it; Ike kept him. Years later, his painful writhings during Watergate were ultimately unavailing, but there was some echo of the Papyrus of Nu in Nixon's "I am not a crook...