Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavyweight race was a two-team event from the start, with Pennsylvania falling behind early after the staggered start on the only dog-legged course the team rows on all season. Harvard, in the middle lane, jumped at the start and made up Navy's initial outer-lane lead of four to five seats after the first 20 strokes...
...contemporary journalistic life before the quotation mark was debauched . . . Nowadays you will read pages-long stretches of fictionalized dialogue in reputable books by former public officials and in magazines and newspapers, exchanges that no reporter or historian could conceivably have got straight as literal truths." She also deplores "that dog's breakfast of fact and fiction that television likes to call 'DocuDrama...
Tacky, tacky, tacky. That is the aim and the achievement of Writer-Director Waters. The decor in Francine's home looks to be straight out of Lesser Homes and Gargoyles; her husband breakfasts on Pepsi and Kix; the family dog leaves the message GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD and hangs itself from the refrigerator door. As with most farce, the movie sags when it runs out of middle-class icons to desecrate. But for any suitably depraved moviegoer, it offers as many honest laughs as Airplane! It's a vision of Baltimore that H.L. Mencken might have loved...
...club at all but a place to be seen, the cuisine is "irregular: one time it's bad, another time it's worse." At P.J. Clarke's, they serve un hamburger that is "both cooked to death and cold and even an English dog would not want to eat it." Ordering a simple sole meuniére at elegant La Grenouille is as complicated as filing an income tax return...
That first issue was typical of all that followed. There was an article called "How to Keep Young Mentally," another titled "Watch Your Dog and Be Wise," and a third on "The Firefly's Light." The magazine tended to be conservative, Republican and antiCommunist, as well as upbeat, inspiring and often simplistic...