Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EPPS let the sleeping dog lie until last fall, when Olive began disappearing for days at a time and papers lay undelivered day after day at the HDNS drop site. Complaints poured in; the newspaper officials discussed replacing Olive with a more reliable manager; bills to the Globe and News Distributors, Inc.--the wholesaler that sells the Times to HDNS piled up by the week. Having put himself at the end of the chain of command. Epps should have responded to these problems by firing Olive...
...last time the Elis and the Crimson met, at last year's Eastern tournament, Yale destroyed Harvard, 22-3. But in the second game of this weekend's tourney, Harvard drowned the dog-paddlers on the strength of junior Houston Hall's five-goal performance...
...William and Elizabeth Hallett, 1785, usually known as The Morning Walk, is one of these: two peach-skinned 21-year-olds, dressed to the nines in their formal finery of velvet, taffeta, filmy silk and crisp ribbons, adored by the animal kingdom in the shape of a fluffy white dog (whose exuberant coat mimicks the finesse of his mistress's clothes), strolling in their idealized park. Its rhymes between nature and culture-particularly in the similarity between Gainsborough's handling of the wife's gauzes and of the foliage of the background trees -suggest an unforced series...
EVERY FRIDAY and Saturday nights, the entrances of hundreds of theaters across America are clogged with people who are there to see an obscure low-budget movie that features a mad scientist transvestite alien named after a hot dog (Dr. Frank N. Furter), a cryogenically-preserved '50s greaser (who escapes from his refrigerator and is, of course, hacked to death), an imitation Dr. Strangelove (who says things like, "This is, I presume, some kind of audio-vibratory molecular device"), and a narrator who has no neck. Besides a few of the uninitiated--called "virgins"--the audience has seen the movie...
...narrow-mindedness become more disturbing than silly. If the Army has given Judy such fulfillment and wisdom, why does she unhesitatingly reject it? She moves in with her lover, runs his household for him, dyes her hair a hideous orange at his behest, and dutifully mops up his dog's urine...